Travis Kalanick Quotes

I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.

There will be time enough some day to work less.

Every hour of useful work is precious.

I used to work at my dad's peanut mill, and worked 15 hours a day, 6 days a week. So, now, riding around on a nice tour bus and doing shows, you'd have to get picky to have a downside.

I don't work that much because I am selective.

In our million-mile-an-hour culture of never enough, working less is interpreted as working less well. This isn't always the case.

Being productive at work is rewarding, and feeling supported, challenged, and appreciated allows us to be our most efficient selves.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.

I'm a person who likes to give 100 percent to everything I do. I want to be the best at my job and as a mother.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

I took two important phone calls while in the shower today because I'm a goddam professional.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving.

Take more time, cover less ground.