Quote #1

"Born in 1971, he grew up in Pretoria, a large city in the northeastern part of South Africa" (25)

Quote #2

"The zip2 idea was ingenious. few small businesses in 1995 understood the ramifications of the internet." (61)

Quote #3

"Then, in February 1999, the pc maker Compaq Computers offered to pay $307 million in cash for Zip2" (72)

Quote #4

"pegged x.com as his chance to make a mark on the world of banking whiz." (82)

"As X.com became more popular and its transaction volume exploded." (87)

Quote #5

"His fears that mankind had lost much of its will to push the boundaries were reinforced one day when Musk went to the NASA website. he'd expected to find a detailed plan for exploring Mars and instead found bupkis." (101)

Quote #6

"Musk promised Straubel $10,000 of the $100,000 he was seeking. On the spot, Musk and Straubel formed a kinship that would survive more than a decade of extreme highs and lows they were set out to do nothing less than change the world." (149)

Quote #7

"When Francis got ready to buy a roadster, He stopped by Musk's house and handed a yellow envelope with $100,000 in cash." (184)

Quote #8

"The Falcon 9 had a successful test fire in Texas with all 9 of its engines lighting up and producing 850,000 pounds of thrust." (198)

Quote #8

"The company received $1.6 billion as payment for twelve flights to the space station"

Quote #9

"When Musk ran the calculations concerning SpaceX and Tesla, it occurred to him that only one company would likely even have a chance of survival." (206)

"As 2008 came to an end, musk had run out of money" (206)

"Musk no longer flew his jet back and forth between Los Angles and silicon valley he took southwest" (207)

Quote # 10

"he began to talk about tesla's goal to become the most profitable major automobile maker in the world" (301)