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" There's probably some misunderstanding of who I am and how I roll. "
Travis Kalanick
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" There's hundreds of millions of people that are card members at AmEx - all of them should be using Uber. "
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" In China, the government is involved in business in many different ways. They're involved in media and business. When you go to China, you have to rethink how you're doing everything. You have to become Chinese. "
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" Even before you get to self-driving vehicles, there's just a huge amount of positive things that happen to cities when you do ridesharing. "
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" I call it dark energy. If you are unreliable, customers just disappear. "
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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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" You can't control who you fall in love with. "
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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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" 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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" Competition is fun. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" The folks who rock Uber value their time; they appreciate nice things with a taste of luxury and loathe inefficiency. "
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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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