Fisker Car Quotes & Sayings

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

With somebody like Harrison Ford, they're so commanding and confident, and you know, he does have a certain power or charisma, and those are things that are sort of ineffable. — Paul Dano

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

He didn't know what it was like to live between memory and regret with nothing to numb it. — Kathleen Tessaro

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

Today, we need people who are capable of creative thinking and independent decision-making. — Mikael Kamber

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

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

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

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

You know what? Starting a car company is risky. — Henrik Fisker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
[From: 19 Lessons On Tea] — Alexander Pushkin

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

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability. — Leslie Morgan Steiner

The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.' — Sandra Tsing Loh