Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Shai Agassi

Once you have a mission, you can't go back to having a job.

You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.

My passions were an intersection between peace in the Middle East and climate change. I know how to understand a technology problem, break it into its components and solve it. I also knew I couldn't make peace solely through technological inventions.

When I sold my first company at 30, I could have done whatever I wanted to do.

Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.

I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead of being solely oil-based. This diversification had brought about modernization. I realized that if you land the price of oil, countries will diversify their economies and as a result, modernize.

I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently.

I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards.

When you translate a dream into reality, it's never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do.

The one factor that you can't find on a spreadsheet is the willingness of the people in government to lead change, And in Denmark every single one of them is engaged and willing to do whatever it takes to get Denmark to be a leader in electric vehicles.

Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low.