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" I like to say time is a luxury. "

Travis Kalanick

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" There will be a huge, huge positive impact for society when driverless cars become a thing. "

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" In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents. "

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" Surge pricing only kicks in in order to maximize the number of trips that happen and therefore reduce the number of people that are stranded. "

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" We need to figure out how to merge political progress with actual progress. "

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

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" I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling. "

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

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" I wake up in the morning with a list of problems, and I go solve them. "

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" In order to keep the love going, you want to keep it fun. "

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" What we like to say is that the vision for Uber is the cross between lifestyle and logistics. "

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" Uber riders are the most affluent, influential people in their cities. "

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" In some way, L.A. respects the young guy that's out there just trying to make it happen, but in some ways, they disrespect that, too. "

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" Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That's why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It's for the experience. "

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" When you are talking about, 'I will lose my sanity for real,' that's when it's time to move on. "

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" There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time. "

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" Some city-council people are really awesome, but most are uninspired. "

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

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" 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. "

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" Being Uber means being efficient. "

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" Think of a world where there is no ride-sharing; people are driving themselves to work. You now have 30 people being served by 30 cars. Those 30 cars are only served 4% of the day; 96% of the day, they're stored somewhere. Around 20% to 30% of our land is taken up just storing these hunks of metal that we drive around in for 4% of the day. "

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" We want to get to the point that using Uber is cheaper than owning a car. "

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" 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. "

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

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" The world isn't always great. "

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" When you start to automate, you start to do the self-driving thing, you make it much more efficient. When these cars go into self-driving, you start to become a robotics company. "

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" 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. "

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

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