Quotes from Travis Kalanick

When you are talking about, 'I will lose my sanity for real,' that's when it's time to move on.

I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.

You have to be willing to stand up for what you believe in, and the rule of law is one of those things.

A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.

In many ways, we look at Uber as the safety net for a city.

The folks who rock Uber value their time; they appreciate nice things with a taste of luxury and loathe inefficiency.

Some city-council people are really awesome, but most are uninspired.

In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents.

Acknowledging mistakes and learning from them are the first steps.

I call it dark energy. If you are unreliable, customers just disappear.

There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it.

Sports uplift us. It's celebratory, gives us optimism and joy.

I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

If there was a mobility service that's cheaper than owning a car, more reliable, and you get to sit in the back seat instead of being stressed out in the front seat, why would you own a car?

Even before you get to self-driving vehicles, there's just a huge amount of positive things that happen to cities when you do ridesharing.

If you get stuck too much with the way you want the world to be, you will find that the world passes you by.

We need to figure out how to merge political progress with actual progress.

Adventure with a purpose is what we do.

Being Uber means being efficient.

Every Uber employee should be proud of the culture we have and what we will build together over time.

What we like to say is that the vision for Uber is the cross between lifestyle and logistics.

I am from Los Angeles, and my parents are from Los Angeles.

I like to say time is a luxury.