Travis Kalanick

“If somebody can offer value at a cheaper price, they should. But that also means Uber should, too.”

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

“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.”

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

“I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience.”

“I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.”

“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.”

“Acknowledging mistakes and learning from them are the first steps.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We always find a way to learn and to get better.”

“China is just so different from the rest of the world.”

“As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.”

“There's a harsh reality to situations where demand outstrips supply.”

“Immigration and openness to refugees is an important part of our country's success and, quite honestly, to Uber's.”

“I've never been derogatory towards taxi drivers.”

“I like pralines-and-cream ice cream.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Every day, I get a little smarter.”