Travis Kalanick Quotes

I'm a complete globalist. I think like a global CEO. But I'm an American. I run an American company. But in order for GE to be successful in the coming years, I've gotta sell my products in every corner of the world.

One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.

Businesses are not just local or even national anymore - good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger than we've ever imagined or seen.

Once you go global, you can’t stay local.

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

We've always gone to other countries where there's been different standards and different practices you have to adhere to. WWE is like any other company, a global company.

Basically, I'm working on global domination. I plan to have members globally. What I'm looking to do is expand in a way that allows us to provide more access and take advantage of the sort of 'world is flat' technology platform, where it doesn't matter where you're located.

I don't think it's any different if I'm in the U.S. or in London. I look at operations globally.

I think we're always going to be based in New York. So I would say 50 percent New York and the other 50 percent around the world.

For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.

We find that no matter what country we're in, if we hit the right economic notes and appeal to the mass market, we're able to build the business very, very rapidly.

Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan and Europe.

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.

When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize.

It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there.

Frankly, I don't know how many companies there are, globally, which are truly global.

Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000.

If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, you'll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe.

There are a number of start-ups in Europe that are able to reach beyond their own country. Take Spotify - Spotify just in Sweden isn't that interesting compared to Spotify all over the world.

I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.