Travis Kalanick Quotes

You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.

I think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big and then dream bigger.

I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

At Nintendo, we do not run from risk. We run to it.

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.

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.

It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.

Entrepreneurial people are never satisfied.

The only things that haven't worked for me are when I've held back. There's no reason to sell an idea short. The only risk would be to not fulfill the dream.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it by then, I would just get a real job. And that fear - the fear of a real job - motivated me to be an entrepreneur.