Brian Chesky Quotes

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

There's moments when you have to make a split-second decision that will form you for the rest of your life.

One small decision, for me to get on a flight from Finland to the U.K. - I had no idea how that one small thing could just change my whole life forever.

Defining moments are the moments that either define you, or you define the moment.

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life.

Every great leap in life comes after you have made a clear decision of some kind.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

One day can bend your life.

My understanding of busy has certainly changed! My daughters have had an incredible impact on my life and the way I live it. They are a part of every decision I make. They motivate me to be the best me.

As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.

The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.

I quite clearly have made the right decision in my heart, retirement was the way.

I am very interested in the small decisions people make that do set you on a different road in your life. As much as we have influence over what kind of person we're going to become, there are little tests along the way.

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever, the very next person who you stand behind in line or sit next to on an aeroplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.

It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we like to admit.

When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . .

As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an arbitrary and superstitious yes or no, was in fact a pivotal moment in my life.