22 Brian Chesky Quotes for You to Enjoy

Brian Chesky

American Businessman

Born: Aug 29, 1981

Culture People Think You Your Yourself

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As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination. Brian Chesky

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Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind. Brian Chesky

Driver Always Been Fundamental Humankind Belonging

The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses. Brian Chesky

Car Own Think Changing Dream Sharing House Were Up American Taught American Dream Grow Grow Up Keep Now

The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products. Brian Chesky

Future You Culture Innovation Machine Break Creates Your Products Foundation

Our shared vision of belonging is the thread that weaves through every touchpoint on Airbnb. Brian Chesky

Vision Every Our Airbnb Thread Through Shared Belonging

I think the key that makes Airbnb is the fact that we're a community, not just a series of commodities. Brian Chesky

Key Community Think Airbnb Fact Makes Commodities Just Series

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like. Brian Chesky

Love People Build Kind Something Like Million Million People

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience. Brian Chesky

Life Experience People Matters Other Relationships Stuff Longer

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion. Brian Chesky

Culture Passion Way Something Shared Simply Doing

Our culture is the foundation for our company. Brian Chesky

Culture Our Company Foundation

Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new. Brian Chesky

Time Perception Our Vivid Driven New Unfamiliar Really

Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us. Brian Chesky

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In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco. Brian Chesky

What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide. Brian Chesky

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The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing. Brian Chesky

You Field Meeting Stay Seeing About Like Doing Lab Laboratory Office Going Just Want Asking Your Users

I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it's easy to convince ourselves that something isn't possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create. Brian Chesky

In summer of 2008, I meet a guy named Michael Seibel. And Michael Seibel says, 'There are these people called angels, and they'll give you money.' The first thing I thought is, 'I can't believe this guy believes in angels.' That's how naive I was. Brian Chesky

I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning. Brian Chesky

Me People Beginning Think Out Pretty Seeking About More Shameless Smarter Always Been Very Than Experienced Much

People don't use Airbnb overtly to trust people more. They use it because they want to get a better sense of the culture and to save money. A by-product was that they live in someone else's shoes. Brian Chesky

Trust Culture People Money Better Shoes Sense Live Else Airbnb Someone More Because Get Want Use By-Product Save

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