"Elon Musk: Visionary Innovator and Entrepreneur"

"We needed to be with him because he gets lonely," Mayes says. "He loves to have family around and we have to do that for him, you know, because hes under so much stress."

"I would see shades of these horrible stories Elon told me surface in his own behavior," says Justine, Elons first wife. "It made me realize how difficult it is not to be shaped by what we grew up with, even when thats not what we want." Every now and then, she dared to say something like "Youre turning into your father." "When I spent some time with Errol," Justine says, "I realized thats where hed gotten the vocabulary."

"I hate you and everything you stand for." It was one factor that made Musk decide to sell his houses and live less lavishly, but that had little effect on the relationship. "Its full-on communism, and a general sentiment that if youre rich, youre evil."

"From 2007 onwards, until maybe last year, its been non-stop pain. Theres a gun to your head, make Tesla work, pull a rabbit out of your hat, then pull another rabbit out of the hat. A stream of rabbits flying through the air. If the next rabbit does not come out, youre dead. It takes a toll. You cant be in a constant fight for survival, always in adrenaline mode, and not have it hurt you.

But theres something else Ive found this year. Its that fighting to survive keeps you going for quite a while. When you are no longer in a survive-or-die mode, its not that easy to get motivated every day."

"He felt that bankers and lawyers did not contribute much to society."