Words matter. These are the best Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A CEO of a multinational global company can’t say what to do; you’ve got to plant the flag.
When you go to a voice-based interaction, you can’t tell people, ‘Ask me this question and structure it in this way.’ And if they ask a question, and you have a bad answer, first time, maybe they’ll be okay with it. Third time, they’re going to say, ‘This is a complete waste of time. I’m going away.’
If you don’t optimize for the consumer on the Internet, you’re dead.
You have to empower your employees to make their own choices and trust that they will make the right choices.
What some Americans don’t appreciate is how strong the brand of the American Dream is around the world. I’m an example of how powerful that product is.
When you see the sacrifices that your parents make for you, you want to do well for them.
We don’t believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.
Failure can teach you something, and as long as you’re moving very, very quickly, you’re going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.
Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.
Where people work and their environment is becoming more and more important, especially for millennials.
One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it’s the leader’s job to always go against the flow.
When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.
Taking big risks combined with having a team you believe in and that believes just as much in you as a leader make for long-term wins, even in a game of inches.
Rail in Europe is incredibly important as far as a transportation medium.
We sure didn’t feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were – my father and mother left everything behind to come here – to be safe and give their boys a chance to rebuild a life.
We found that travel, especially online travel, has been quite resistant to economic cycles.
Desperation sometimes drives innovation.
I think I wanted to be a doctor. In Iran, the engineering and medical professions are worshipped. My father very much wanted me to be a doctor. I was certainly eager to please as a young man – as a kid, I should say.
I remember my father taking us to meeting with lawyers, interviews with immigration officers, doing everything he could to get us that treasured Green Card – and the happiness, the sense of relief, when he finally did – we knew that we were welcome now, and we would be welcome tomorrow.
Traveloka is the clear online travel leader in Indonesia and is expanding aggressively throughout Southeast Asia.
I love Expedia.
Chinese consumers don’t book hotel rooms that are as expensive as U.S. consumers.
It’s definitely a problem inside the technology industry – not just gender discrimination. Diversity is an issue within technology, within Expedia.
Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.
I thought all those channels on cable TV were really cool.
