Travis Kalanick Quotes

A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.

Regulators will issue regulations until someone says no.

I don't interfere with regulators.

If we don’t enforce the regulations we have, these conversations are useless.

You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

You can't, in a government agency, regulate everything that moves ... you can't regulate everything ... you must strike a balance.

The reason that we have rules is so that sometimes they can be suspended.

We needed to be uncompromising [with our workforce], to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and ever-changing government mandates. Striving to comply with every law does not mean agreeing with every law. But, even when faced with laws we think are counter-productive, we must first comply. Only then, from a credible position, can we enter into a dialogue with regulatory agencies to demonstrate alternatives that are more beneficial. If these efforts fail, we can then join with others in using education and/or political efforts to change the law

In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.

The Constitution is only there to regulate matters.

There's nothing magic about regulations, too much is bad, too little is bad.

It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package…

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

We are constantly working towards the highest level of compliance possible.

I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.