Quotes from Dara Khosrowshahi

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.

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

The power of immigration, the power of the American dream, if you think about the American dream, it is the best brand out there.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Desperation sometimes drives innovation.

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

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

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

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

I started in investment banking at Allen & Company in 1991. It was the go-go days of media mergers, and we were incredibly busy with one deal after another. Unlike typical investment banking groups, even in the midst of merger mania, we didn't have a formal face-time culture - and I felt empowered by that.

There's simply no better company out there doing mobile travel apps with the same level of design sensibility and utility as Mobiata.

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

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

My wife and I got married on 12/12/12 in Las Vegas, and she was wearing a Slayer T-shirt. That tells you what kind of woman I'm lucky enough to be with.

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

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

I think from a personal standpoint, maybe I appreciate a little more that there are two sides to every story, and the way that the U.S. is sometimes is viewed outside of the U.S. can be pretty tough, depending on what the U.S.'s actions are.