Travis Kalanick Quotes

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

I think that in the earlier days, when I was a 'wantrepreneur,' I was really doing things because I thought what I wanted was to be rich.

The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.

Aspiring entrepreneurs are often advised to work at a startup for a couple of years first, to understand what's involved. But often, each company's approach to success is very narrow. So my advice is, 'Just do it.'

I think most people who try to start a business, they realise very quickly that one of the biggest hurdles is having to be self-determined.

You can't study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be honest: It's one of my least favorite questions, because if you're waiting for someone else's advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you're not one.

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

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

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving success. Startups repeatedly stumble and have to go back to the drawing board. The best way to skip some levels and to increase the odds of survival is to learn from others who have already played the game.

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.