Quotes from Dara Khosrowshahi

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

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

It was a choice between a paint factory in Indianapolis - a management training program to maybe run the paint factory one day - or go to New York City and become an investment banker. It wasn't a very difficult decision.

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

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

What some Americans don't appreciate is how strong the brand of the American Dream is around the world. I'm an example of how powerful that product is.

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.

Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.

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

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.'

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

My family owned a bunch of pharmaceutical manufacturing plants and other consumer-goods manufacturing plants. We would license Western goods and manufacture them in Iran and distribute them throughout the Middle East.

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

My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six years before returning. My mom was raising three kids without a dad.

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.

My family had to flee Iran... the revolution, and we were very, very lucky to come to America and have opportunities presented to us. And that's... one of the things that makes America great.

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

One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it's the leader's job to always go against the flow.

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.

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.

It's definitely a problem inside the technology industry - not just gender discrimination. Diversity is an issue within technology, within Expedia.

There's a lot of distrust of the United States, and I certainly see that. But at the same time, everything that I've seen is that the U.S. is a genuine force for good in the world.

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

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