Travis Kalanick Quotes

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

I research every possible bit of information I can find. Then I use about a tenth of it. But I have to know all the information first; otherwise, I'm not going to convince myself, and if I can't convince myself, then I'm not going to convince the reader.

When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.

You do as much research as you can for any project.

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

One cannot guarantee that if we have good intelligence, good policy will necessarily follow. But we can guarantee that if we have poor intelligence, poor policy will necessarily follow.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

I can't ever remember being struck by lightning when making a big decision. It's always about taking in more and more data points and making tack adjustments as you figure it out. I call customers, suppliers, industry analysts and try to get as much information as possible.

I'm not a momentary decision maker. I like well-informed decisions.

My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.

We need to be able to make decisions even though part of the information that we have is incorrect and wrong.

You can’t have opinions unless you have information.

Even a conscientious person cannot reach reasonable political conclusions without trustworthy, factual information.

We all have an obligation to move beyond anecdotes.

I have to take decisions—not back hunches.

A great many decisions just can’t be made with confidence because the data just doesn’t exist …. [however] just because we don’t have the information doesn’t mean that we can’t get it.

Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right. If you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

As an intelligence analyst you have to tell the president what you know, what you think you know and what you don’t know.

Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.