Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes
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I started in investment banking at Allen & Company in 1991. It was the go-go days of media mergers, and we were incredibly busy with one deal after another. Unlike typical investment banking groups, even in the midst of merger mania, we didn't have a formal face-time culture - and I felt empowered by that.
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Chinese consumers don't book hotel rooms that are as expensive as U.S. consumers.
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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.
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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.'
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Consumers may put off buying a car, but they don't put off buying a vacation.
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It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an immigrant nation.
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Companies don't like uncertainty; travelers don't like uncertainty.
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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.
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We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.
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The power of immigration, the power of the American dream, if you think about the American dream, it is the best brand out there.
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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.
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A CEO of a multinational global company can't say what to do; you've got to plant the flag.
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Where people work and their environment is becoming more and more important, especially for millennials.
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I think where Trump just has it dead wrong is this is a world of us versus them.
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Traveloka is the clear online travel leader in Indonesia and is expanding aggressively throughout Southeast Asia.
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Anytime you introduce volatility, it is not good for business and not good for travel.
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My wife and I got married on 12/12/12 in Las Vegas, and she was wearing a Slayer T-shirt. That tells you what kind of woman I'm lucky enough to be with.
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My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six years before returning. My mom was raising three kids without a dad.
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When you see the sacrifices that your parents make for you, you want to do well for them.
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We found that travel, especially online travel, has been quite resistant to economic cycles.
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Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.
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While Expedia is outbound-focused, Wotif is much more about domestic travel.
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The American dream is you come here, you believe in democracy, you believe in the Constitution, you work hard, you can make it.
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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.