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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. "

Travis Kalanick

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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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" Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy. "

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" I've never been derogatory towards taxi drivers. "

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" The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape. "

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" You have to be willing to stand up for what you believe in, and the rule of law is one of those things. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Every day, I get a little smarter. "

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" You want supply to always be full, and you use price to basically either bring more supply on or get more supply off, or get more demand in the system or get some demand out. "

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" We're in the business of delivering cars in five minutes, but once you can deliver cars in five minutes, there's a lot of things you can deliver in five minutes. "

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" 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. "

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" When people start to perceive you as the big guy, you're not allowed to be scrappy, fierce. "

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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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" Hamilton is my favorite political entrepreneur. "

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" In many ways, we look at Uber as the safety net for a city. "

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" You can't control who you fall in love with. "

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

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

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" I've had failures myself before Uber. "

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" Millennials aren't buying cars anymore. They don't want to drive. They don't want to own these cars. They don't want that inconvenience. "

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" 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. "

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" Safety is number one at Uber... so we make sure the system is in place so riders get the safest ride possible. "

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

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" You have to find ways to find that center, to find that balance, to find sanity, because again, we are getting bigger, and people look at us that way. We have to find that new balance. "

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" You can bend reality, but you cannot break it. "

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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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" We have this culture valued at Uber, which we call the champions' mind-set. And champions' mind-set isn't always about winning. It's about putting everything you have on the field, every ounce of passion and energy you have. And if you get knocked down, overcoming adversity. "

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