Dara Khosrowshahi

I love Expedia.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

I thought all those channels on cable TV were really cool.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Desperation sometimes drives innovation.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

You have to empower your employees to make their own choices and trust that they will make the right choices.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Anytime you introduce volatility, it is not good for business and not good for travel.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Consumers may put off buying a car, but they don't put off buying a vacation.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Traveloka is the clear online travel leader in Indonesia and is expanding aggressively throughout Southeast Asia.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

If you get the product and technology right, then the rest usually falls into place.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

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

I think a lot of Americans don't appreciate just what an incredible country this is, how lucky they are, how safe they…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

We sure didn't feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were - my father and mother left everything behind to…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

The American dream is you come here, you believe in democracy, you believe in the Constitution, you work hard, you can make…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins.…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

There's a lot of distrust of the United States, and I certainly see that. But at the same time, everything that I've…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Taking big risks combined with having a team you believe in and that believes just as much in you as a leader…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

I think my background, coming from Iran, which is a great country but is going through its share of troubles, really allows…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

I remember my father taking us to meeting with lawyers, interviews with immigration officers, doing everything he could to get us that…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

I started in investment banking at Allen & Company in 1991. It was the go-go days of media mergers, and we were…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

I think from a personal standpoint, maybe I appreciate a little more that there are two sides to every story, and the…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

When you go to a voice-based interaction, you can't tell people, 'Ask me this question and structure it in this way.' And…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Where people work and their environment is becoming more and more important, especially for millennials.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

As companies get bigger, they tend to slow down. It's a universal law.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Having a United States passport has been an incredible asset, and I hope that will continue to be the case.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

If you don't optimize for the consumer on the Internet, you're dead.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

I think that, in the end, the consumer's going to win on the Internet.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

I think where Trump just has it dead wrong is this is a world of us versus them.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Rail in Europe is incredibly important as far as a transportation medium.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

We found that travel, especially online travel, has been quite resistant to economic cycles.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Chinese consumers don't book hotel rooms that are as expensive as U.S. consumers.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

When you see the sacrifices that your parents make for you, you want to do well for them.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Companies don't like uncertainty; travelers don't like uncertainty.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

My family emigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian revolution in 1978.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

While Expedia is outbound-focused, Wotif is much more about domestic travel.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

A CEO of a multinational global company can't say what to do; you've got to plant the flag.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

— Dara Khosrowshahi