Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents. "
Travis Kalanick
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Travis Kalanick
" 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. "
Travis Kalanick
" 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. "
Travis Kalanick
" 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. "
Travis Kalanick
" We always find a way to learn and to get better. "
Travis Kalanick
" 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. "
Travis Kalanick
" Safety is number one at Uber... so we make sure the system is in place so riders get the safest ride possible. "
Travis Kalanick
" 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. "
Travis Kalanick
" I don't believe that you can make decisions on anything without having all of the details. "
Travis Kalanick
" 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. "
Travis Kalanick
" The folks who rock Uber value their time; they appreciate nice things with a taste of luxury and loathe inefficiency. "
Travis Kalanick
" There are a lot of rules in cities that were designed to protect a particular incumbent, but not to move a city's constituents, a city's citizens, and the city itself, forward. And that's a problem. "
Travis Kalanick
" We want transportation as reliable as running water. "
Travis Kalanick
" I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience. "
Travis Kalanick
" 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. "
Travis Kalanick
" I am from Los Angeles, and my parents are from Los Angeles. "
Travis Kalanick
" 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. "
Travis Kalanick
" 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. "
Travis Kalanick
" You have to be willing to stand up for what you believe in, and the rule of law is one of those things. "
Travis Kalanick
" 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. "
Travis Kalanick
" 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. "
Travis Kalanick
" We need to figure out how to merge political progress with actual progress. "
Travis Kalanick
" I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress. "
Travis Kalanick
" I really love numbers. "
Travis Kalanick
" Uber riders are the most affluent, influential people in their cities. "
Travis Kalanick
" If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen. "
Travis Kalanick
" 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. "
Travis Kalanick
" What I've learned as we've gotten bigger is that it's really, really important for us to take all the opportunities to tell our story, because as we grow and have a bigger impact on cities, if we don't tell our story, somebody else will. "
Travis Kalanick
" 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. "
Travis Kalanick
" I've never been derogatory towards taxi drivers. "
Travis Kalanick