Top 50 Fisker Quotes

#1. At a European auto show, I had someone from a German car company come up to me and say the Karma should cost $125,000, not $87,900, but our development process lets us lower the costs. I guarantee it's profitable.

Henrik Fisker

Fisker Quotes #29259
#2. The car is the most regulated thing in the world. It's more complicated to make a car than it is to send a rocket to space.

Henrik Fisker

Fisker Quotes #42429
#3. In fact, education is very different from training. Training is what you know whereas education is who you are as a person.

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #178629
#4. I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [ ... H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling

Elon Musk

Fisker Quotes #236155
#5. I like to have the widest part of the car being the wheels and not the body. It gives it a more athletic look and, with the sculpture, helps make a car look sexy.

Henrik Fisker

Fisker Quotes #367009
#6. Once investors come in, it's hardly your company anymore!

Henrik Fisker

Fisker Quotes #392177
#7. conspicuous consumption is not a natural state for all of us.

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #407163
#8. I come from Denmark; Fisker Automotive comes from California.

Henrik Fisker

Fisker Quotes #416686
#9. When the automobile was made affordable to the masses, people moved further away from work and further away from stores. While transportation speed increased, transportation distance increased proportionally, keeping transportation time constant.

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #439679
#10. I've always wanted to design a Mustang. I just never really had the opportunity in my career because the timing was never right.

Henrik Fisker

Fisker Quotes #440186
#11. You always have to stimulate the senses.

Henrik Fisker

Fisker Quotes #496528
#12. We believe that there are many buyers who want a stylish, sporty car that sends a positive message about their concern for the environment as they drive it down the street.

Henrik Fisker

Fisker Quotes #522735
#13. If you have debt, you're not a free person. You're explicitly owned by your debt and implicitly owned by the creditor.

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #557727
#14. Any car designer always dreams about designing their own car - if they say they don't, they're lying ... For me, it was never about starting my own company just to make another car.

Henrik Fisker

Fisker Quotes #592042
#15. The mass education in high schools reflects the mass production of the real world. The teaching style has one teacher (supervisor) lecturing (leading) 20-25 students (workers) sitting in rows, much like a manager and his employees.

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #598478
#16. For instance, why do we still work eight hours a day, 50 weeks a year, when we're twice as productive as we were 50 years ago?

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #614547
#17. I used to have to pick up the phone and talk to people who placed orders for the car. When you reach a certain size, you need to have processes in place.

Henrik Fisker

Fisker Quotes #668750
#18. Any connection with nature and most connections with technology are lost. There's a belief that nature is irrelevant and that anything can be solved using the current methods--now technology; previously magic or praying.

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #703485
#19. Complexity, therefore, results in flexibility. Increasing complexity always increases capability and adaptability.

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #740244
#20. wit, a salary or even the potential of a future salary seems to be a gateway to the debt drug; so many people could probably reduce the risk of getting into debt by simply quitting their jobs.

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #822794
#21. Design - pure beauty - will be number one at Fisker Coachbuild. We want to bring beautiful, desirable cars to the market, limit the production of each model, and do so with the highest quality.

Henrik Fisker

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#22. Walkers easily travel three miles by foot. Drivers get in their cars to get from one side of the parking lot to the other. Neither quite understand why the other is so crazy, when it's so easy to do things their way.

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #851427
#23. The real problem is not how much we earn; it's how much we waste, perhaps to demonstrate our supposed wealth, when we spend it.

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #887327
#24. Many profit-driven corporate strategies are based on fashion, planned obsolescence, unneeded upgrades, and masterful emotional manipulation --marketing--causing people to continuously replace goods which are still in good working order.

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #902228
#25. realize that economic agents all represent special interests that typically interpret the situation according to their own interests or political views.

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #903570
#26. Most automakers develop multiple options for a single project. Then they present those options to a committee of executives who decide which one to go with. That takes a lot of time.

Henrik Fisker

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#27. When we first showed the Karma in January 2008, we had barely started the company.

Henrik Fisker

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#28. I remember, as a kid, riding in the back of my dad's old Saab 95 in Denmark. We were on the highway, and suddenly this silver Maserati Bora came upon us, then passed. At the time, to me, this car looked like a spaceship.

Henrik Fisker

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#29. Do you want to spend most of your life paying off the interest of a 30-year mortgage and working so you can fill increasingly bigger houses with increasingly more stuff while being stuck in your daily commute in increasingly nicer cars?

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #1079617
#30. People with more money than time buy $3,000 road racing bicycles with ultralight carbon frames to shave two pounds off the bike, regardless of the fact that they themselves are probably at least 10 pounds overweight.

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #1086749
#31. I have a 100-mile round trip commute on some of the nations' busiest roads and enjoy every minute of it.

Henrik Fisker

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#32. This figure shows the cash flows in a world with only two people. I labeled them creditor and debtor. In reality, there are many creditors and debtors (see text for details). It also explains why the "rich get richer" and why those who are in debt and work for a living never seem to "get ahead.

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #1116765
#33. I like to come up first of all with a free idea, thinking about and obviously understanding what is necessary for it to become a car.

Henrik Fisker

Fisker Quotes #1164513
#34. In the same vein, tally up the sum total of your earned income so far, subtract your savings, and compare the difference to your pile of stuff. Was it really a good deal?

Jacob Lund Fisker

Fisker Quotes #1190064
#35. As a car lover, I ask myself, 'What am I going to be buying in the future? Will it be a boring, underpowered, dorky car because the government tells me I shouldn't pollute? Or do I come up with a cool-looking, sexy dream car that is also part of the future?'

Henrik Fisker

Fisker Quotes #1307823
#36. My motivation for starting Fisker was simple: I thought there must be a market for beautiful, exciting, fast, environmentally friendly cars. The car is probably the only product you can still fall in love with and have a relationship with.

Henrik Fisker

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#37. We designed a car that is for daily commutes and that you charge every day. The less you use the gasoline engine, the better mpg. Essentially, the Karma can achieve dramatic savings and low CO2 output when used as intended, as a daily commuter.

Henrik Fisker

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#38. I could imagine that boats sailing in harbors will only use electric engines. And then once they are out in the water they will use diesel.

Henrik Fisker

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#39. You know what? Starting a car company is risky.

Henrik Fisker

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#40. When I see a car I've designed going down the street and somebody admiring it, that's a nice feeling.

Henrik Fisker

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#41. One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don't understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.

Henrik Fisker

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#42. You need to focus on creating the actual value of the company, not just the theoretical value. The actual value comes from a great product that sells well and is ultimately profitable.

Henrik Fisker

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#43. I want to explore the existing manufacturing abilities of Indian companies and create products together.

Henrik Fisker

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#44. People feel very emotional about cars, and I don't want them to feel bad about driving a fast car.

Henrik Fisker

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#45. I like doing business with people in India.

Henrik Fisker

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#46. The biggest challenge is to build the team and start the company, while hiring people, raising money, building a brand which has no history, all at the same time. You're doing a lot of things that in an established company are already done.

Henrik Fisker

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#47. A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.

Henrik Fisker

Fisker Quotes #1711169
#48. I believe there's still room for the dream a lot of people in the industry have - to design and build your own cars.

Henrik Fisker

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#49. When I was at BMW and Aston Martin, I realized how difficult and how many resources it takes to create a car - let alone a car company.

Henrik Fisker

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#50. If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life.

Henrik Fisker

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