Ashlee Vance

“Take it down to the physics,”

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“humans need to become a multiplanetary species”

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“The only thing stopping them was reality.”

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“I think impossible goals are demotivating.”

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“DO YOU THINK I’m insane?” This”

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“sometimes at the Sheraton hotel in Palo Alto.”

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“strive for greater collective enlightenment”

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“We’re thinking, Fucking nerd. What can he be doing now?”

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“for Musk, the distinction between stumbling into something and having intent is important.”

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“Elon said, ‘I would tell those people they will get to see their families a lot when we go bankrupt.”

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“The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment”

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“He always works from a different understanding of reality than the rest of us,”

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“As Page puts it, “Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.” It’s a principle he’s tried to apply at Google.”

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“Founded in June 2002, Space Exploration Technologies came to life in humble settings.”

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“Musk’s vision, and, of late, execution seem to combine the best of Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller. With”

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“The longer you wait to fire someone the longer it has been since you should have fired them”

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“I’m not an investor. I like to make technologies real that I think are important for the future and useful in some…

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“Musk sits somewhere on the autism spectrum and that he has trouble considering other people’s emotions and caring about their well-being.”

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“I may have been optimistic with respect to the timing on some of these things, but I didn’t over-promise on the outcome,”…

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“This is the first place I have worked that is going to change the world,” Blankenship said, taking a jab at the…

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“I was like, ‘Wow,’ but I got it. I had come out of a military culture, and you just have to make…

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“What separated Tesla from the competition was the willingness to charge after its vision without compromise, a complete commitment to execute to…

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“I mean, this is going to sound like heresy in a sort of Silicon Valley context, but you can program faster, you…

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“«He aprendido que la intuición no funciona muy bien en lo relativo a cosas de las que uno no sabe mucho —cuenta…

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“As Musk put it, “Try to imagine explaining that you’re investing in an electric car company, and everything you read about the…

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“Musk had spent months studying the aerospace industry and the physics behind it. From Cantrell and others, he’d borrowed Rocket Propulsion Elements,…

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“One person putting in a sixteen-hour day ends up being much more effective than two people working eight-hour days together. The individual…

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“This left Musk searching for an industry that had tons of money and inefficiencies that he and the Internet could exploit. Musk…

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“Most car dealers make the majority of their profits from servicing cars. They treat vehicles like a subscription service, expecting people to…

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“He gave a speech, saying we would work on Saturdays and Sundays and sleep under desks until it got done. Someone pushed…

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“Whereas if they change a rule and something good happens, they don’t even get a reward. So, it’s very asymmetric. It’s then…

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“The media reports from the day described the car as the love child of an Aston Martin and a Maserati. In reality,…

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“7 ALL ELECTRIC J. B. STRAUBEL HAS A TWO-INCH-LONG SCAR that cuts across the middle of his left cheek. He earned it…

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“The guys like Straubel who had been at Tesla since the beginning are quick to remind people that the chance to build…

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“Thought Leadership “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future” Book by Ashlee Vance “Take risks now and do…

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“the Riddle: “You’re standing on the surface of the Earth. You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north.…

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“What Musk had done that the rival automakers missed or didn’t have the means to combat was turn Tesla into a lifestyle.…

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“But the more the Tesla guys researched the industry, the more they realized that the big automakers don’t even really build their…

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“When Musk announced in 2014 that Tesla would open-source all of its patents, analysts tried to decide whether this was a publicity…

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“He’s hands-on to a degree that would make Hugh Hefner feel inadequate.”

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