Ashlee Vance

Elon Musk

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  • Dossan Nakmuhamedovhas quoted8 years ago
    You don’t know what you don’t know. You realize there are all these things out there
  • Atthachai Boonpongsrihas quoted5 years ago
    The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment,
  • ELENA SAPNIThas quoted5 years ago
    “When Elon gets into something, he develops just this different level of interest in it than other people. That is what differentiates Elon from the rest of humanity.”
  • marshamarshahas quoted6 years ago
    “Innovation is a finite resource.”
  • Michael Bravermanhas quoted8 years ago
    This side of him is likely obscured by the fact that he feels most deeply about his own humanity-altering quest and so has trouble recognizing the strong emotions of those around him. This tends to make Musk come off as aloof and hard. I would argue, however, that his brand of empathy is unique. He seems to feel for the human species as a whole without always wanting to consider the wants and needs of individuals. And it may well be the case that this is exactly the type of person it takes to make a freaking space Internet real
  • Konstantin Savenkovhas quoted9 years ago
    Where Mark Zuckerberg wants to help you share baby photos, Musk wants to . . . well . . . save the human race from self-imposed or accidental annihilation.
  • 洪一萍has quoted4 years ago
    Musk never relented in asking his employees to do more and be better, whether it was at the office or during extracurricular activities.
  • 洪一萍has quoted4 years ago
    ‘Don’t ever fucking let that happen again,’” Spikes said. “He had a way of looking at you—a glare—and would keep looking at you until you understood him.”
  • 洪一萍has quoted4 years ago
    Musk and a couple of SpaceX employees flew his jet across the country and arrived late at night expecting to see a shift of workers doing extra duty to get the fuel tanks completed. When Musk discovered that Spincraft was well behind schedule, he turned to a Spincraft employee and informed him, “You’re fucking us up the ass, and it doesn’t feel good.” David Schmitz was a general manager at Spincraft and said Musk earned a reputation as a fearsome negotiator who did indeed follow up on things personally.
  • 洪一萍has quoted4 years ago
    “The guy comes in, and Elon asks him why they’re meeting,” Spikes said. “He said, ‘To develop a relationship.’ Elon replied, ‘Okay. Nice to meet you,’ which basically meant, ‘Get the fuck out of my office.’ This guy had spent four hours traveling for what ended up as a two-minute meeting. Elon just has no tolerance for that kind of stuff.” Musk could be equally brisk with employees who were not hitting his standards. “He would often say, ‘The longer you wait to fire someone the longer it has been since you should have fired them,’” Spikes said.
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