140 Quotes by Ashlee Vance

As Page puts it, “Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.” It’s a principle he’s tried to apply at Google.

Either you’re trying to make something spectacular with no compromises or you’re not. And if you’re not, Musk considers you a failure.

If there was a way that I could not eat, so I could work more, I would not eat. I wish there was a way to get nutrients without sitting down for a meal.

The longer you wait to fire someone the longer it has been since you should have fired them,’” Spikes said.

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.” Early.

If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules.

Soy un hombre complicado con necesidades muy simples pero muy concretas.

You’re standing on the surface of the Earth. You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north. You end up exactly where you started. Where are you?

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.