The life of Tesla boss Elon Musk in 10 quotes
Posted on 16-05-2015 at 19:33 by ricardo – 50 Comments”
There is a new book appeared about Elon Musk, in which you can find out all about the entrepreneur, space pioneer, accuboer, EV-promoter and all-round nice guy. Here you can read the most notable quotes taken from the bundle.
If you’re interested in the story behind the co-founder of Tesla, or just a good book want to read about how a nerd from South Africa to the U.S. drew, and billionaire was with epic companies, then the book ‘Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future’ is certainly recommended. We told earlier about the almost-deal between Tesla and Google, which is extensive in this book is discussed. Now we have the 10 most memorable quotes from the book collected. Read this list and you get a nice picture of the 43-year-old entrepreneur.
1. Justine Musk, Elon’s first ex-wife:
“I do think of him as the Terminator. He locks his gaze on to something and says, ‘It shall be mine.’ Bit by Bit, he won me over.”
2. Google boss Larry Page about Musks housing shortage in Silicon Valley.
“He’s a child or homeless, which I think is sort of funny. 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.”
3. Antonio Gracias, a member of the board of Tesla:
“Elon said ‘I will spend my last dollar on these companies. If we have to move into Justine’s parents’ basement, we’ll do it.’ “
4. Christie Nicholson, the daughter of an advisor of Elon. She came to him at a party, when he still studied:
“I believe the second sentence out of his mouth was, ‘I think a lot about electric cars.’ And then he turned to me and said, ” Do you think about electric cars?’ “
5. Elon Musk, on his holiday in Brazil and South Africa in 2000, where he almost fell to malaria:
“That’s my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.”
6. Elon Musk about how much time he bitches and side ho’s want to spend:
“I would like to allocate more time to dating, though. I need to find a girlfriend. That’s why I need to carve out just a little more time. I think maybe just another five to 10 — how much time does a woman want a week? Maybe 10 hours? That’s child, or the minimum? I don’t know.”
7. Elon Musk against former Ford ceo Alan Mullaly, about the lawsuit that Ford has against Tesla had brought about the use of the model name ‘Model E’:
“Like why did you go steal Tesla’s E? Like you’re some sort of fascist army marching across the alphabet, some sort of Sesame Street robber?”
8. Elon Musk about the time that he was in South Africa by classmates to the hospital in was rammed. Then, (comic)books are friends, which is the intelligent Musk even more intelligent made:
“They’ve got my best friend to lure me out of hiding so they could beat me up. And that fucking hurt. For some reason they decided that I was it, and they were going to go after me nonstop. That’s what made growing up difficult. For a number of years there was no respite. You get chased around by gangs at school who tried to beat the shit out of me, and then I’d come home, and it would just be awful there as well.”
9. Elons mother about how he sometimes in trance:
“He goes into his brain, and then you just see he is in another world. He still does that. Now I just leave him be because I know he is designing a new rocket or something.”
10. Elon on the future roller coaster ride in the Tesla factory in Fremont:
“Everybody around here has slides in their lobbies. I’m actually wondering about putting in a roller coaster — like a functional roller coaster at the factory in Fremont. You’d get in, and it would take you around [the] factory, but also up and down. Who else has a roller coaster? … It would probably be really expensive, but I like the idea of it.”