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Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes
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Dara Khosrowshahi
American
Businessman
Family
Think
Time
Travel
World
You
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If you get the product and technology right, then the rest usually falls into place.
Dara Khosrowshahi
You
Technology
Rest
Falls
Get
Place
Then
Product
Right
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.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Failure
You
Luxury
Long
Speed
Able
Something
Gives
Wins
Fail
Piling
Up
Very
Quickly
Going
Moving
Teach
Start
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.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Happiness
Welcome
Immigration
Remember
Tomorrow
Father
Sense
Meeting
Interviews
Everything
Finally
Relief
Would
Would-Be
Lawyers
Could
He
Knew
Taking
Doing
Were
Green
Get
Green Card
Officers
Did
Us
Now
Card
Treasured
If you don't optimize for the consumer on the Internet, you're dead.
Dara Khosrowshahi
You
Internet
Consumer
Dead
Optimize
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.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Me
Man
Doctor
Father
Young
Engineering
Think
Please
Say
Worshipped
Kid
Iran
Very
Wanted
Young Man
Much
Should
Certainly
Professions
Eager
Medical
Where people work and their environment is becoming more and more important, especially for millennials.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Work
People
Important
More
More And More
Environment
Becoming
Where
Millennials
Uber is a company that is redefining the transportation industry on a global basis; to be part of that story is something that is interesting and would be a real privilege.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Would
Would-Be
Something
Part
Global
Industry
Redefining
Real
Privilege
Story
Interesting
Transportation
Company
Basis
As we move over to more of a mobile device-centric world... I think the interaction model with devices is going to be much more voice-based.
Dara Khosrowshahi
World
Think
More
Over
Devices
Mobile
Model
Going
Move
Interaction
Much
Anytime you introduce volatility, it is not good for business and not good for travel.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Good
You
Travel
Business
Introduce
Volatility
Anytime
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.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Time
Family
Our
Summers
France
Kind
Would
Had
Cousins
Go
South
Up
Just
Grew
Grand
While Expedia is outbound-focused, Wotif is much more about domestic travel.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Travel
About
More
Domestic
While
Much
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.
Dara Khosrowshahi
You
Business
Vote
Will
Build
Follow
Put
Clicks
Ultimately
Want
Center
Decision-Making
Product
Your
Travelers
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.'
Dara Khosrowshahi
Time
Me
You
People
First
Complete
Way
Say
Okay
Tell
Bad
Structure
First Time
Answer
Go
Question
Going
Going Away
Maybe
Interaction
Ask
Waste
Waste Of Time
Away
Third
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.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Life
Mother
Father
Rebuild
Guess
Everything
Give
Feel
Come
Like
Safe
Sure
Hindsight
Boy
Were
Left
Behind
Refugees
Here
Chance
When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Work
Work Hard
Focus
About
Only
Importance
Learned
How
Hard
I think where Trump just has it dead wrong is this is a world of us versus them.
Dara Khosrowshahi
World
Think
Wrong
Dead
Trump
Versus
Just
Where
Them
Us
We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Together
World
Believe
Look
Versus
Them
Us
My family emigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian revolution in 1978.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Family
Revolution
Iranian
After
Desperation sometimes drives innovation.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Innovation
Desperation
Sometimes
Drives
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.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Country
Think
Incredible
Safe
Empowered
How
Lot
American
Just
Lucky
Appreciate
I think my background, coming from Iran, which is a great country but is going through its share of troubles, really allows me to appreciate what we have here.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Great
Me
Country
Think
Great Country
Background
Through
Troubles
Share
Coming
Iran
Going
Which
Really
Here
Appreciate
Consumers may put off buying a car, but they don't put off buying a vacation.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Car
Consumers
Put
Off
May
Vacation
Buying
Rail in Europe is incredibly important as far as a transportation medium.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Important
Medium
Incredibly
As Far As
Far
Transportation
Europe
Rail
One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it's the leader's job to always go against the flow.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Leadership
Job
Leader
Learned
Always
Go
Against
Lessons
Early
Flow
I love Expedia.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Love
Taking big risks combined with having a team you believe in and that believes just as much in you as a leader make for long-term wins, even in a game of inches.
Dara Khosrowshahi
You
Game
Risks
Leader
Big
Believe
Having
Wins
Taking
Long-Term
Combined
Make
Just
Just As Much
Much
Team
Inches
Even
Believes
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