Dara Khosrowshahi

“My family owned a bunch of pharmaceutical manufacturing plants and other consumer-goods manufacturing plants. We would license Western goods and manufacture them in Iran and distribute them throughout the Middle East.”

“Desperation sometimes drives innovation.”

“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 you see the sacrifices that your parents make for you, you want to do well for them.”

“As we move over to more of a mobile device-centric world... I think the interaction model with devices is going to be much more voice-based.”

“It's definitely a problem inside the technology industry - not just gender discrimination. Diversity is an issue within technology, within Expedia.”

“My family emigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian revolution in 1978.”

“When you let travelers vote with their clicks, and you put that at the center of your decision-making, you build the product they want, and ultimately, their business will follow.”

“When we grew up, our family and kind of gaggle of cousins would go to the south of France for the summers. And we just had a grand time.”

“Companies don't like uncertainty; travelers don't like uncertainty.”

“Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.”

“A CEO of a multinational global company can't say what to do; you've got to plant the flag.”

“Consumers may put off buying a car, but they don't put off buying a vacation.”

“Traveloka is the clear online travel leader in Indonesia and is expanding aggressively throughout Southeast Asia.”

“My family had to flee Iran... the revolution, and we were very, very lucky to come to America and have opportunities presented to us. And that's... one of the things that makes America great.”