Brian Chesky Quotes
CEOs are often chief product officers. But for me to say I'm a chief product officer when my product is a community, I really should be thinking of myself as head of this community.
Quotes to Explore
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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I have a cat named Dandelion.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
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To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.
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A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.
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I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.
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CEOs are often chief product officers. But for me to say I'm a chief product officer when my product is a community, I really should be thinking of myself as head of this community.
