Elon Musk Quotes

“Lost City of”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“There it is, gentlemen, the fastest car in the world”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“come up with a long-term plan. Maye had family”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“for lunch with them, and they were talking physics things. They were saying, ‘A plus B equals pi squared’ or whatever. They would laugh out loud. It was cool”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“pursuing her dream of becoming a writer,”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“fashioned tables by laying plywood on”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“live”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“Employees have since dubbed the acronym policy the ASS Rule.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk How The Billionaire Ceo Of Spacex, Shoe Dog A Memoir By The Creator Of Nike, Steve Jobs The Exclusive Biography 3 Books Collection Set

“I don't think an aerospace program has been completed on time since bloody World War II”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk How The Billionaire Ceo Of Spacex, Shoe Dog A Memoir By The Creator Of Nike, Steve Jobs The Exclusive Biography 3 Books Collection Set

“Anyone arriving at Musk Land for the first time will have the same head-scratching experience. You’re told to park at One Rocket Road in Hawthorne, where SpaceX has its HQ. It seems impossible that anything good could call Hawthorne home. It’s a bleak part of Los Angeles County in which groupings of rundown houses, run-down shops, and run-down eateries surround huge, industrial complexes that appear to have been built during some kind of architectural Boring Rectangle movement.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“Anyone arriving at Musk Land for the first time will have the same head-scratching experience. You’re told to park at One Rocket Road in Hawthorne, where SpaceX has its HQ. It seems impossible that anything good could call Hawthorne home.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacations will kill you.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX / Shoe Dog A Memoir by the Creator of Nike / The Upstarts

“Thats' my lesson for taking a vacation: vacations will kill you.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX / Shoe Dog A Memoir by the Creator of Nike / The Upstarts

“That's what my lesson for taking a vacation: vacations will kill you.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX / Shoe Dog A Memoir by the Creator of Nike / The Upstarts

“While at Disneyland a few months earlier on a date with his wife, Eberhard had come up with the name Tesla Motors, both to pay homage to the inventor and electric motor pioneer Nikola Tesla and because it sounded cool.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“But he risks destroying his dreams by refusing to reconcile them with reality.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

“La manera de actuar de Tesla no tiene como único fin ofender a los
fabricantes y a los concesionarios por su forma de hacer negocios. Muestra con
sutileza que los automóviles eléctricos representan otra forma de pensar.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“La intención era construir una
red global de carga; los propietarios de un Modelo S que estuvieran haciendo un
viaje largo solo necesitarían salir un momento de la autopista para recargar
rápidamente. Y sería gratis. De hecho, Musk insistió en que los propietarios de
un Tesla pronto podrían cruzar Estados Unidos sin gastar un centavo en
combustible.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“Durante tres o cuatro años, Musk sufrió un acoso incesante por parte de
aquellos matones. Llegaron al punto de golpear a un muchacho al que Musk
consideraba su mejor amigo, hasta que el niño accedió a dejar de hablarle. «Peor
aún, lograron que mi puto mejor amigo me animara a salir de mi escondite para
que pudieran darme una paliza —recuerda Musk—. Eso duele, joder.» Mientras
me contaba aquella parte de la historia, los ojos de Musk se humedecieron y le
temblaba la voz. «Por alguna razón me eligieron a mí y me hicieron la vida
imposible. Eso fue lo más difícil de todo. Durante unos años, no hubo tregua.
Las pandillas me buscaban en la escuela para molerme a palos, y, cuando volvía
a casa, era igual de horrible. El espanto no acababa nunca.»”
― ashlee vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“Da igual el método. Lo importante es cumplir con tu trabajo. Elon lo lleva metido en la sangre. Escucha, formula preguntas atinadas, es rápido de reflejos y llega al fondo de la cuestión.»”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: El empresario que anticipa el futuro (BIOGRAFÍA Y MEMORIAS)

“Proudian said. “Elon wanted to be CEO, but I said, ‘This is your first company. Let’s find an acquirer and make some money, so you can do your second, third, and fourth company.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“Someone pushed back from the table and argued that everyone had been working so hard just to get the car done, and they were ready for a break and to see their families. Elon said, ‘I would tell those people they will get to see their families a lot when we go bankrupt.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“Musk”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“una de las cosas más difíciles es saber formular las preguntas adecuadas”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: El empresario que anticipa el futuro (BIOGRAFÍA Y MEMORIAS)

“La determinación es una cualidad que Musk tiene en la mayor estima: respeta a la gente que no se da por vencida ante una negativa.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: El empresario que anticipa el futuro (BIOGRAFÍA Y MEMORIAS)

“stuff. Shotwell made sure to emphasize the lean, innovative”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

“His first day on the job came right as Boeing completed its merger with McDonnell Douglas. The resultant mammoth government contractor held a picnic to boost morale but ended up failing at even this simple exercise. “The head of one of the departments gave a speech about it being one company with one vision and then added that the company was very cost constrained,” Hollman said. “He asked that everyone limit themselves to one piece of chicken.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“One of Musk’s most ardent admirers is also one of his best friends: Larry Page, the cofounder and CEO of Google. Page has ended up on Musk’s house-surfing schedule. “He’s kind of homeless, which I think is sort of funny,” Page said. “He’ll e-mail and say, ‘I don’t know where to stay tonight. Can I come over?’ I haven’t given him a key or anything yet.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

“In general, always pick common sense as your guide. If following a 'company rule' is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation [...], then the rule should change.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“SpaceX can undercut its U.S. competitors—Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital Sciences—on price by a ridiculous margin. It also offers U.S. customers a peace of mind that its rivals can’t. Where these competitors rely on Russian and other foreign suppliers, SpaceX makes all of its machines from scratch in the United States.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future