Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes
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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.
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My family emigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian revolution in 1978.
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When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.
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It was a choice between a paint factory in Indianapolis - a management training program to maybe run the paint factory one day - or go to New York City and become an investment banker. It wasn't a very difficult decision.
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Desperation sometimes drives innovation.
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It's definitely a problem inside the technology industry - not just gender discrimination. Diversity is an issue within technology, within Expedia.
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I love Expedia.
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You have to empower your employees to make their own choices and trust that they will make the right choices.
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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.
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Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.
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We sure didn't feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were - my father and mother left everything behind to come here - to be safe and give their boys a chance to rebuild a life.
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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.
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Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.
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I think from a personal standpoint, maybe I appreciate a little more that there are two sides to every story, and the way that the U.S. is sometimes is viewed outside of the U.S. can be pretty tough, depending on what the U.S.'s actions are.
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There's simply no better company out there doing mobile travel apps with the same level of design sensibility and utility as Mobiata.
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I think I wanted to be a doctor. In Iran, the engineering and medical professions are worshipped. My father very much wanted me to be a doctor. I was certainly eager to please as a young man - as a kid, I should say.
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I thought all those channels on cable TV were really cool.
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There's a lot of distrust of the United States, and I certainly see that. But at the same time, everything that I've seen is that the U.S. is a genuine force for good in the world.
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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.
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Rail in Europe is incredibly important as far as a transportation medium.
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I think a lot of Americans don't appreciate just what an incredible country this is, how lucky they are, how safe they are, how empowered they are.
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I think that, in the end, the consumer's going to win on the Internet.
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As the perception of the United States as a welcoming place for all changes among travelers globally, the country's tourism market, which is a huge revenue generator for the economy, could get hurt.
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What some Americans don't appreciate is how strong the brand of the American Dream is around the world. I'm an example of how powerful that product is.