Quotes from Brian Chesky

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.

Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.

I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.

I think the key that makes Airbnb is the fact that we're a community, not just a series of commodities.

Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.

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 there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook.

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 just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.

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 apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.

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 are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.

When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.

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 that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.

The people with the passports, the people who travel more, tend to be the most understanding. And it's ironic that the people who travel the least have the strongest opinions about the people they've never met.

No matter how certain I am about some culture or some group of people, my opinions are only as accurate as the amount of time I've spent with them.

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation