Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes

Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren't successful and the products don't sell that there won't be anything to strategize about.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

All you can worry about as CEO is making sure your company continues to build great products, deliver the revenue, and keep your customers happy.

If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

… good luck and good timing are huge components of outsized success in entrepreneurial endeavors. Lots of things have to go right, and the planets have to align; that certainly happened in Amazon’s case. Our timing turned out to be very good. And so you can’t sit down to write a business plan and say you’re going to build a multibillion-dollar corporation; that’s unrealistic.

I'm always a fan of good business moves.

Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct.

I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.

Don't worry about the financials. Just focus on delivering great products.

In real business, there's spiritual success and then there's facts and just hard work and making sure you're on point with the product.

We're not really in the business to sell ourselves. We want to sell what we work on.

I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do.

Quality is the best business plan.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.

Our goal is to desperately make the best products we can. We're not naive. We trust that if we're successful and we make good products, that people will like them. And we trust that if people like them, they'll buy them. And we figured out the operation and we're effective. We know what we're doing, so we'll make money, but it's a consequence.

If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.