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" Acknowledging mistakes and learning from them are the first steps. "

" Adventure with a purpose is what we do. "

" After Scour, I started a company called Red Swoosh. The idea was to take those litigants who sued us for a huge amount of money and turn them into customers with the same technology. I wanted to get them to pay me. It was a revenge business. "

" A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard. "

" As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal. "

" As much as I'd love to give everybody a really cheap option, it's just simply not possible in certain sorts of extreme events... I guarantee that our strategy on surge pricing is the optimal way to get as many people home as possible. "

" At Uber, we say, 'Always be hustling.' Even if you are an introvert and you haven't got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven't got enough hustle to find a co-founder who's got hustle, it's going to be tough. You've got to have a little hustle in you. "

" Based on my experience, I would say that rather than taking lessons in how to become an entrepreneur, you should jump into the pool and start swimming. "

" Being Uber means being efficient. "

" China is just so different from the rest of the world. "

" Competition is fun. "

" Competition is good. "

" Even before you get to self-driving vehicles, there's just a huge amount of positive things that happen to cities when you do ridesharing. "

" Every day, I get a little smarter. "

" Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an architecture. You build a machine to solve the problems that are like it later. And then you move on to the next. "

" Every Uber employee should be proud of the culture we have and what we will build together over time. "

" Hamilton is my favorite political entrepreneur. "

" I am from Los Angeles, and my parents are from Los Angeles. "

" I believe in creating a workplace where a deep sense of justice underpins everything we do. "

" I call it dark energy. If you are unreliable, customers just disappear. "

" I don't believe that you can make decisions on anything without having all of the details. "

" If somebody can offer value at a cheaper price, they should. But that also means Uber should, too. "

" If there was a mobility service that's cheaper than owning a car, more reliable, and you get to sit in the back seat instead of being stressed out in the front seat, why would you own a car? "

" If Uber is lower-priced, then more people will want it. And if more people want it and can afford it, then you have more cars on the road. And if you have more cars on the road, then your pickup times are lower, your reliability is better. The lower-cost product ends up being more luxurious than the high-end one. "

" If Uber wants to catch up to Google and be the leader in autonomy, we have to have the best minds. We have to have all the great minds. "

" If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen. "

" If you can make it economical for people to get out of their cars or sell their cars, and turn transportation into a service, it's a pretty big deal. "

" If you get stuck too much with the way you want the world to be, you will find that the world passes you by. "

" If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect. "

" I got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness. "

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