Fisker Inc Quotes & Sayings

conspicuous consumption is not a natural state for all of us. — Jacob Lund Fisker

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

I come from Denmark; Fisker Automotive comes from California. — Henrik Fisker

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

The question you need to answer is what you want to do with your life given that you don't have the time to do everything? 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? Or are you prepared to give up the stuff so that you can do whatever you want, whenever, and wherever, within reason? What will your legacy be--what you owned or who you were? — Jacob Lund Fisker

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

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

Health is thus a condition of well-being and an ability to appreciate life. It's not necessarily optimizing or conforming to a set of measurable quantities like life expectancy or blood pressure, nor is it removing all symptoms using drugs. Health is the presence of something positive, rather than the absence of something negative. — Jacob Lund Fisker

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

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

You always have to stimulate the senses. — Henrik Fisker

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

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

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

We have an economic model that is based on pulling resources out of the ground and mostly turning them into unnecessary products, getting people to buy the products by convincing them that they need them, then getting them to throw the products away because they're obsolete. This makes people buy the next model and bury the other one in the ground. The sole goal of this seemingly pointless exercise is to work faster and grow the gross domestic product, which measures the resource churn. — Jacob Lund Fisker

Complexity, therefore, results in flexibility. Increasing complexity always increases capability and adaptability. — Jacob Lund Fisker

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

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

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

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

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

When we first showed the Karma in January 2008, we had barely started the company. — Henrik Fisker

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

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

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

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 have a 100-mile round trip commute on some of the nations' busiest roads and enjoy every minute of it. — Henrik Fisker

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

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

realize that economic agents all represent special interests that typically interpret the situation according to their own interests or political views. — Jacob Lund Fisker