Brian Chesky Quotes

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• Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.
• Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.
• A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation
• Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world,
• The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.
• People went to Dell for the computers, but they go to Apple for everything… That’s the difference between a transactional company and a transformational one.
• Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.
• Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.
• If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
• When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something…
• 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…
• Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm.…
• 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…
• 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…
• I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the…
• I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So…
• 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…
• 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…
• Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start…
• There's no such thing as a good or bad culture, it's either a strong or weak culture. And a good culture for somebody else may…

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