Brian Chesky Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

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

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

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.

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.

I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook.

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.

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

I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the platform ... Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.