“I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a produc...” — Shai Agassi Quote

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.

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

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

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

Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.

My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.

You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.

A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.