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

Travis Kalanick

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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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" I think that's where the world is going. People will not own cars; they'll have a service that takes them where they want to go, when they want to go there. And that's what Uber is. "

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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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" I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress. "

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

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

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

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

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" The world isn't always great. "

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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 transportation as reliable as running water. "

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

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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'm a geek. A techie geek. "

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" I used to be a computer engineer, and I can make really good code, and we can make systems that work really well, and we can make the application a great experience, but when you have to translate bits to atoms, you need folks who are used to working with city governments, with state governments, and so I like to say we're in a political campaign. "

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

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" Uber exists because of mobile telephones. "

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" It was a privilege to meet Rev. Jackson, and I learned a tremendous amount from his insight. "

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" I'm a natural-born trust-buster. "

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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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" Imagine if you put many, many years of your life into something and were passionate about it, and you spent every waking moment putting love into it and trying to make it better, and people didn't understand that. You'd want them to. "

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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 been an entrepreneur since I was 18. I started a company with a bunch of buddies that got funded in my senior year, and that's when I finished school. It was called Scour, a peer-to-peer service, file-sharing. "

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" 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. "

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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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" We always find a way to learn and to get better. "

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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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