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" Immigration and openness to refugees is an important part of our country's success and, quite honestly, to Uber's. "

Travis Kalanick

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

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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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" I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience. "

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" My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody; it's not red or blue. "

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" Hamilton is my favorite political entrepreneur. "

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

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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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" I really love numbers. "

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" I think a lot of folks feel like Uber was a company they missed out on. Sequoia passed on us three times. "

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

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

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" Being Uber means being efficient. "

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" Competition is good. "

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" I like to say time is a luxury. "

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

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" I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years. "

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" We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is. "

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" I think Uber is just very different; there's no model to copy. It may be the reason why we've been a lightning rod in so many ways, because we don't do anything conventional... And then I think also, as an entrepreneur, I'm a bit of a lone wolf. "

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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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" We did a year of Uber in San Francisco before we went to a second city. You get those processes down, then you really get started. "

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" The way I try to simplify my job is that I have two lists - I have a list of all the crazy, interesting problems that I get to solve every day or that need to be solved, and I have a crazy list of things I'd like to invent. And I kind of just prioritize them and work my way down, and try to simplify what I do when managing a big company. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there. "

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" 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. "

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