Brian Chesky Quotes

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

It's better to have 100 people love you than to have 1,000,000 people like you.

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

People went to Dell for the computers, but they go to Apple for everything… That’s the difference between a transactional company and a transformational one.

The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

The second thing I had to do was not to be reluctant as a leader...And when I started doing that, I realized that people are thriving from this, and that it's so much more helpful for people.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

Everyone's got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

We start with the perfect experience and then work backward. That's how we're going to continue to be successful.

[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.

A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

Brand is really the connection between you and your customersif you have a very strong culture, then the brand will come through.

In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.

Whatever career you're in, assume it's going to be a massive failure. That way, you're not making decisions based on success, money and career. You're only making it based on doing what you love.

Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values.

In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.

Companies that hire employees..that are deeply passionate create companies that customers are really really passionate about, and those are the companies that have strong brands.

Don't listen to your parents.

There's no such thing as a good or bad culture, it's either a strong or weak culture. And a good culture for somebody else may not be a good culture for you.

The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.

In June, 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since.