Travis Kalanick Quotes

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

I had worked hard my entire career to establish myself as a leader. But I wasn't a leader until I was perceived as one.

I gravitate towards gravitas.

People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

A seat in the council is honor without profit.

The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

Power resides where men believe power resides.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

Power in itself has never attracted me, nor has position been my goal.

I don't care about power. I don't care about credit.

I have no interest in the trappings of power.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

How success changes the opinion of men!