Christian von Koenigsegg Quotes

“It is impossible to lead by following – therefore I am different.”

“Keep both feet on the ground—staying realistic—but your head in the sky so you maintain your dream and your vision.”

“There is, of course, no easy way to achieve your dreams; you have to be willing to grind for it.”

“I remember being quite scared to go there actually. I was there with friends and after driving it I felt like it was the best experience of my life and I couldn't think of anything else for weeks after.”

“The most impossible car of all, even though it's the simplest one, was the CC8S because, on average, fewer than 12 people created it. In the first seven or eight years, only four people were working on it, and we had very little experience. That it turned out the way it did is unbelievable to me today.”

“A car with no gears is still a mind-bender for me. It was an absolutely wild execution that no other car company would ever have dared to do.”

“My mindset has always been that it's not over until I give up, and if I never allow myself to give up that means it's never over.”

“The plan I had to build cars was pretty much the opposite of what people usually think is a smart business idea. Nobody was asking for it. It was seemingly impossible. It was expensive. Nobody had ever come from nothing and done it successfully before. So it was a stupid business idea, basically. An impossible plan. And that's why I liked it.”

“If I can give any advice, stay focused of course, and don't give up when it's really miserable and dark, that's when you really need to keep working. Even though it's painful and looks impossible and you should stop everything and your body tells you you should stop. That's when you really need to keep on working and pushing otherwise there is no chance.”

“People ask us, so why do you do all this stuff in-house when you can buy most of it? Well, we cannot do that if we just buy stuff from others. It's the cohesion of the complex system that we are lucky to be allowed and capable of developing together in-house, with a lot of extra effort, headaches, and sometimes complications that you need to overcome. But then, when it's all there and together, you can do some amazing stuff.”

“It's not over until I give up, and if I never allow myself to give up that means it's never over. This has given me the confidence to work through a lot of challenges.”

“Many said it was an impossible undertaking. Actually I fully agree. The fact is, I like impossible undertakings.”