Quotes About Strategy

I have the privilege of working with our in-house design studio, called Samara, and our humanitarian team, called Human. Samara is thinking about the future of Airbnb, and Human is working on ways to leverage our platform outside the cause of day-to-day business.

I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.

There are many ways to do something right within the world of pro wrestling.

When you treat your career early on really crappy, you can't expect to be in a good position. That's just the way pro fighting is.

Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can't do that without the right people.

Most business problems, you will have an intuitive idea on what to do.

China will be the answer to Japan's problems.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

It is processes that are important.

We did a year of Uber in San Francisco before we went to a second city. You get those processes down, then you really get started.

If we focus on processes, the results will automatically take care of themselves.

If you think about corporate legal work that's done today, some part of it is art and then some of it is repeatable processes.

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.

I'm not out there to be blocking shots or fighting guys. I'm out there to produce offensively.

I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.

We are not a nation who has ever produced No 10s prolifically. When I was growing up, attacks consisted of a big man-little man combination, with two midfielders sitting behind.