Travis Kalanick Quotes

I grew up on the East Coast, and we always used to say, 'Go get your hustle on,' whether it was playing sports or making money. You do what you have to do to do what you want to do.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

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

I don't mean you have to be overbearing, but you have to stay on top of things - read the trades, know what's going on in the town. I call it 'dare to be stupid.' The worst thing they can say is, 'We got nothing for you.' So I've hustled a lot.

A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to 'TV Guide.' I knew how to make a presentation.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

I think I've succeeded more by learning what needed to be done next and getting help in getting it done. I was just very focused and impatient.

Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their co-operation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.

The enterprising spirit is gone when one goes South.

Part of the success of Girls Who Code is that I am a hustler. When people ask what my biggest strength is, it's that I'm shameless. I will ask people for help even when I don't know them.

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

Stop whining, start hustling.

It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I take my drive from my mother and my practicality from my father.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.

Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so.

If I want something, I go after it.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.