Brian Chesky Quotes

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.

I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I've been around.

Everything doesn't have to be perfect, I've realised. You can learn as you go.

Sometimes it's not always perfect, and there are mistakes, and you pick yourself up and move on. I've learned you can't be a perfectionist. I still strive to do my best in every area, but I've learned to let go.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I've learned that failure will always come. I've learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.

I'm not afraid of changing something to try to be better at it.

Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.

There is no normal. What my job was a few years ago was completely different than what it is today. As soon as I have it dialed in, the company changes and the team changes and my role changes as a result. What the company needs is always evolving, and I don't get to choose what I want to do as much as I thought I would be now - which is OK. It keeps me in this position of learning new things and keeping me humble. There is always something I don't know, and I'm comfortable with that.

I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

America is big enough to admit when it's wrong and confident enough to learn from its mistakes.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

I would say I'm a boss who's learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I'm learning along the way because that's a tough thing.

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.

You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.

The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated.

I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.