Elon Musk has some highly desirable personality traits including the following:
- He solves big, meaningful problems
- He’s focused on discussing big, exciting ideas that inspire others
- He’s very polite when mentioning things he thinks need improvement
- He’s humble, which makes him quite likable
- He gives others credit instead of making himself the focus of receiving credit
- He’s highly intelligent and polite about his desire to win (so that he doesn’t seem ruthless)
- He speaks clearly and uses concise sentences; therefore, its easy to follow his logic
- He uses polite, light-hearted humor
You can watch many of the aforementioned qualities by watching Tesla’s 2013 annual shareholder meeting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3AcKTmaoE8 (at 7:10 Elon begins to talk).