Travis Kalanick Quotes

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to do that, you need people to know they can make a bunch of money. So we need a business model to make a lot of money.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

The purpose of a business is to create customers.

When the finance or marketing people run a company, innovation stops.

A big part of the accelerator is to help scientists become entrepreneurs. I like to think about each business being built on three major areas: creating the value, creating the product, and extracting the value. We provide help in each of these areas.

Capital never builds great products.

If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.

Business Art is the step that comes after Art.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.

Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling it. But customers will not come just because you build it. You have to make this happen, and it's harder than it looks.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

I've always been obsessed with marketing and media. I always wanted to be a business brand owner. I wanted to create things.

Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.

Part of Customer Development is understanding which customers make sense for your business.