Danish designer Henrik Fisker is CEO of Fisker Coachbuild, a company that specializes in custom super cars built from brand new donor cars such as the Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG (base price of US$129,575) and the BMW 650Ci (base of US$71,800). Fisker, a former designer at BMW and most recently director of the advance design studio for Ford Motor Co., designed the Aston Martin Vanquish and the BMW Z8 - both of which were used in James Bond films.

Mr. Fisker had this to say about the way he operates his new company:

“We learned about quality from BMW, how to do great things with very few people whilst at Aston Martin and from Ford how not to do things.”

I believe that goes down in the history books as one of the best quotes I have ever heard.

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