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.

Brian Chesky

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

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Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days. by Brian Chesky

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

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

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

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

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

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It's better to have 100 people love you than to have 1,000,000 pe... by Brian Chesky

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

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

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Somebody asked me 'what's the job of a CEO', and there's a number of things a CEO does. What you mostly do is articulate the vision, develop the strategy, and you gotta hire people to fit the culture. If you do those three things, you basically have a company. And that company will hopefully be successful, if you have the right vision, the right strategy, and good people.

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

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[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.

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Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people k... by Brian Chesky

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

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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.

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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.

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Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

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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.

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

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Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.

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

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

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

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