Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes
One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it's the leader's job to always go against the flow.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.
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Only one champion stands at the end of the year, so just making the playoffs isn't enough.
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In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American troops. But, as I describe in the book, going out on patrol and coming into a village, the soldiers found a stash of documents and decided this was Taliban propaganda.
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The journey of Marco Polo is the hero's journey, one that all cultures across the globe can relate to.
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Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.
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One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it's the leader's job to always go against the flow.
