“I’ve learned that your intuition about things you don’t know that much about isn’t very good” — Ashlee Vance Intuition Copy Share Image
“There is a happy-gas factory up on the hill, and it’s pumping stuff into the Valley.” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“budding entrepreneurs strive “to be like Elon” just as they had been striving in years past to mimic Steve Jobs.” — Ashlee Vance Business Copy Share Image
“Well, we will decide we’re going into production and then a miracle is going to happen,” — Ashlee Vance Miracle Copy Share Image
“surgery. “Elon can be very demanding, but he’ll make sure the obstacles in your way are removed,” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“He goes into his brain, and then you just see he is in another world,” — Ashlee Vance Another world Copy Share Image
“When Musk is present, the chats tend toward the absurd and fantastic” — Ashlee Vance Absurd Copy Share Image
“He just destroys you and, if you survive, he determines if he can trust you.” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“When Elon gets into something, he develops just this different level of interest in it than other people. That is what differentiates… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Cult of Musk. Employees fear Musk. They adore Musk. They give up their lives for Musk, and they usually do all of… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Like Steve Jobs before him, Musk is able to think up things that consumers did not even know they wanted—the door handles,… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Musk came to see man’s fate in the universe as a personal obligation. If that meant pursuing cleaner energy technology or building… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“The way Elon talks about this is that you always need to start with the first principles of a problem. What are… — Ashlee Vance Principles Copy Share Image
“In regards to time, Musk may well set more aggressive delivery targets for very difficult-to-make products than any executive in history.” — Ashlee Vance History Copy Share Image
“The big car companies are so derivative. They want to see it work somewhere else before they will approve the project and… — Ashlee Vance Companies Copy Share Image
“He argued that science fiction, which once celebrated the future, has turned dystopian because people no longer have an optimistic view of… — Ashlee Vance Ability to change Copy Share Image
“favored moving toward open-source software like Linux, while Musk championed Microsoft’s data-center software as being more likely to keep productivity high. This… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Steve Jurvetson, the venture capitalist who has invested in SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, worked for Jobs, and knows Gates well, also described… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“All the bankers did was copy what everyone else did. If everyone else ran off a bloody cliff, they’d run right off… — Ashlee Vance Bankers Copy Share Image
“Musk had never run a car factory before and was considered arrogant and amateurish by Detroit. Yet, one year after the Model… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Throughout these early years, the engineers credited Eberhard with making quick, crisp decisions. Rarely did Tesla get hung up overanalyzing a situation.… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“During a time in which clean-tech businesses have gone bankrupt with alarming regularity, Musk has built two of the most successful clean-tech… — Ashlee Vance Business Copy Share Image
“«Jamás he conocido a nadie con su capacidad de trabajo y de resistencia a la tensión —afirma Gracias—. Las cosas a las… — Ashlee Vance Amor Copy Share Image
“Another testing procedure required that the Roadsters go into a special cooling chamber to check how they would respond to frigid temperatures.… — Ashlee Vance Ice cream Copy Share Image
“Musk pulled Justine close while they danced, and informed her, “I am the alpha in this relationship.” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“You don’t tell Elon you can’t do something. That will get you kicked out of the room” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“You would see people come out of the meetings with this disgusted look on their face,” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“I mean, there aren’t that many people you can talk to about this sort of thing” — Ashlee Vance People Copy Share Image
“He wanted to inspire the masses and reinvigorate their passion for science, conquest, and the promise of technology.” — Ashlee Vance Inspiration Copy Share Image
“I would like to die thinking that humanity has a bright future,” — Ashlee Vance Bright future Copy Share Image
“He points out that one of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask,” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“he then talked earnestly about saving humanity while a blotch of the dessert hung from his lower lip.” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“flashed a spreadsheet he’d created. “Hey, guys,” he said, “I think we can build this rocket ourselves.” Griffin and Cantrell had downed… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“That ability to stay focused in the midst of a crisis stands as one of Musk’s main advantages over other executives and” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Musk has taken industries like aerospace and automotive that America seemed to have given up on and recast them as something new… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“And by recruiting hundreds of bright, self-motivated people, SpaceX has maximized the power of the individual. One person putting in a sixteen-hour… — Ashlee Vance Self motivated Copy Share Image
“Musk guides his engineers into taking ownership of their own delivery dates. “He doesn’t say, ‘You have to do this by Friday… — Ashlee Vance Friday Copy Share Image
“He listed The Lord of the Rings, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, and Robert Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress as some… — Ashlee Vance Asimov Copy Share Image
“on Mars, because the atmosphere is carbon dioxide and there’s a lot of water or ice in the soil, the carbon dioxide… — Ashlee Vance Carbon dioxide Copy Share Image
“He’s less a CEO chasing riches than a general marshaling troops to secure victory. Where Mark Zuckerberg wants to help you share… — Ashlee Vance Human race Copy Share Image
