Top 44 Travis Kalanick Quotes

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

The folks who rock Uber value their time; they appreciate nice things with a taste of luxury and loathe inefficiency.

I’m a passionate entrepreneur. I’m like fire and brimstone sometimes. And so there are times when I’ll go – I’ll get too into the weeds and too into the debate, because I’m so passionate about it.

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.

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.

In order to keep the love going, you want to keep it fun.

There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.

Millennials aren’t buying cars anymore. They don’t want to drive. They don’t want to own these cars. They don’t want that inconvenience.

Ultimately, progress and innovation win.

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.

You can’t control who you fall in love with.

The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It’s intense to fight the red tape.

What I like to say when you get into something that feels like a bubble or, at least, feels irrational is that you still want to build a company that has a strong discipline, business-building culture.

Acknowledging mistakes and learning from them are the first steps.

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.

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.

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.

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

Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy.

I’ve had failures myself before Uber.

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

There’s been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that’s already legal, you’ll never get it.

Based on my experience, I would say that rather than taking lessons in how to become an entrepreneur, you should jump into the pool and start swimming.

There’s probably some misunderstanding of who I am and how I roll.

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.

If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you’re gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.

I like pralines-and-cream ice cream.

Uber riders are the most affluent, influential people in their cities.

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.

I’m a natural-born trust-buster.

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

We want to get to the point that using Uber is cheaper than owning a car.

Uber is a global business. We don’t think just in terms of the U.S.

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.

Some city-council people are really awesome, but most are uninspired.

In my first start-up, I didn’t get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents.

We want transportation as reliable as running water.

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.

You can bend reality, but you cannot break it.

Hamilton is my favorite political entrepreneur.

There’s a harsh reality to situations where demand outstrips supply.

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.

We have this culture valued at Uber, which we call the champions’ mind-set. And champions’ mind-set isn’t always about winning. It’s about putting everything you have on the field, every ounce of passion and energy you have. And if you get knocked down, overcoming adversity.

Adventure with a purpose is what we do.