Top 120 Ashlee Vance Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Whether Musk was a founder of Tesla in the purest sense of the word is irrelevant at this point. There would be no Tesla to talk about today were it not for Musk’s money, marketing savvy, chicanery, engineering smarts, and indomitable spirit. Tesla was, in effect, willed into existence by Musk and reflects his personality as much as Intel, Microsoft, and Apple reflect the personalities of their founders.”

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102. “During a time in which clean-tech businesses have gone bankrupt with alarming regularity, Musk has built two of the most successful clean-tech companies in the world. The Musk Co. empire of factories, tens of thousands of workers, and industrial might has incumbents on the run and has turned Musk into one of the richest men in the world, with a net worth around $10 billion. The visit to.”

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103. “I’m pretty sure that we ended up with the only seventeen-inch touch-screen in the world,” Musk said.”

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104. “He lost forty-five pounds over the course of the illness and had a closet full of clothes that no longer fit. “I came very close to dying,” Musk said. “That’s my lesson for taking a vacation: vacations will kill you.”

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105. “Enorme Risiken begleiten fast alles, was Musk tut. Doch wenn es nach ihm geht, wird er bis ganz zum Ende mit diesen Risiken leben und auf vieles verzichten, was anderen Menschen wichtig ist.”

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106. “Musk wants to conquer the solar system, and, as it stands, there’s just one company where you can work if that sort of quest gets you out of bed in the morning.”

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107. “He was constantly remarking on the ways he found me lacking. ‘I am your wife,’ I told him repeatedly, ‘not your employee.’ ‘If you were my employee,’ he said just as often, ‘I would fire you.”

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108. “I came to the conclusion that really we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask.”

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109. “And it may well be the case that this is exactly the type of person it takes to make a freaking space Internet real.”

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110. “My mind is not easily blown, but this place and this guy were amazing,” Downey said. To.”

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111. “I feel a bit like my grandmother. She lived through the Great Depression and some real hard times. Once you’ve been through that, it stays with you for a long time.”

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112. “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”

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113. “Musk dealt with it directly. He flew to England in his jet to pick up some new manufacturing tools for the body panels and personally delivered them to a factory in France to ensure that the Roadster stayed on its production schedule.”

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114. “Public company stocks, particularly if big step changes in technology are involved, go through extreme volatility, both for reasons of internal execution and for reasons that have nothing to do with anything except the economy. This causes people to be distracted by the manic-depressive nature of the stock instead of creating great products. For.”

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115. “Falcon 1 shut down just as planned and reached orbit, making it the first privately built machine to accomplish such a feat.”

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116. “Like Steve Jobs before him, Musk is able to think up things that consumers did not even know they wanted – the door handles, the giant touch-screen – and to envision a shared point of view for all of Tesla’s products and services.”

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117. “It didn’t make Musk feel any better that he and Page were very close friends and that he felt Page was fundamentally a well-intentioned person and not Dr. Evil. In fact, that was sort of the problem.”

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118. “These efforts began in earnest on October 18, 2004, and, rather remarkably, four months later, on January 27, 2005, an entirely new kind of car had been built by eighteen people. It could even be driven around.”

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119. “I just look at it as ‘What grades do I need to get where I want to go?”

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120. “Marketing people who made grammatical mistakes in e-mails were let go, as were other people who hadn’t done anything “awesome” in recent memory. “He can be incredibly intimidating at times but doesn’t have a real sense for just how imposing he can be,” said one former Tesla executive.”

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121. “Musk has decided that man’s survival depends on setting up another colony on another planet and that he should dedicate his life to making this happen. Musk unveiled the Hyperloop in 2013. He proposed it as a new mode of.”

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122. “But there is now a degree to which you have to ask whether his success is an indictment on the rest of us who have been working on much more incremental things. To the extent that the world still doubts Elon, I think it’s a reflection on the insanity of the world and not on the supposed insanity of Elon. – Peter Thiel on Elon Musk.”

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123. “Russia gets to charge $70 million per person for the trip and to cut the.”

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

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125. “Everyone knew that the person who starts a company is not necessarily the right person to lead it in the long term, but whenever that is the case, it’s not easy.”

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126. “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 very easy to understand why regulators resist changing the rules. It’s because there’s a big punishment on one side and no reward on the other. How would any rational person behave in such a scenario?”

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127. “Along with showcasing the Model S, the Tesla stores sold hoodies and hats and had areas in the back where kids would find crayons and Tesla coloring books.”

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128. “You’re twenty-four or twenty-five, and they’re trusting you with so much. It was very empowering.”

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129. “You don’t know what you don’t know. You realize there are all these things out there.”

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130. “That ability to stay focused in the midst of a crisis stands as one of Musk’s main advantages over other executives and competitors.”

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131. “SpaceX, by the way, is not alone here. Being late is par for the course in the aerospace industry. It’s not a question of if it’s late, it’s how late will the program be. I don’t think an aerospace program has been completed on time since bloody World War II.”

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132. “The two men continue to despise each other today, although they must do so in private, as legally required.”

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133. “Musk comes off much more like Thomas Edison than Howard Hughes. He’s an inventor, celebrity businessman, and industrialist able to take big ideas and turn them into big products.”

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134. “Within the next few years, SpaceX expects to cut its price to at least one-tenth that of its rivals.”

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135. “You have to put yourself in a position where you say, ‘Well, how would this sound to them, knowing what they know?”

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136. “Do you think I’m insane?”

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137. “I’ve learned that your intuition about things you don’t know that much about isn’t very good.”

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138. “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click Ads. That sucks.”

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139. “Musk actually said as much to one venture capitalist, informing him, “My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.”

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