Brian Chesky famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Artist #Thinking #Entrepreneur
In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.
-- Brian Chesky

#Organization #Needs #Culture
Everyone's got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.
-- Brian Chesky

#Life Changing #Two #Decision
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.
-- Brian Chesky

#Stars #Thinking #Interesting
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.
-- Brian Chesky

#Jobs #Thinking #Opportunity
What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.
-- Brian Chesky

#Cities #People #Different
Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.
-- Brian Chesky

#Passion #Culture #Way
Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world,
-- Brian Chesky

#Passion #People #Innovation
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.
-- Brian Chesky

#Strong #Culture #May
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.
-- Brian Chesky

#Jobs #Successful #Numbers
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.
-- Brian Chesky

#Important #Culture #Missions
It's better to have 100 people love you than to have 1,000,000 people like you.
-- Brian Chesky

#Love You #People #Like You
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

#Strong #Passionate #Employee
Brand is really the connection between you and your customersif you have a very strong culture, then the brand will come through.
-- Brian Chesky

#Strong #Connections #Culture
In June, 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since,
-- Brian Chesky

#June #Homeless #Apartment
A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation
-- Brian Chesky

#Jobs #Entrepreneur #Innovation
Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.
-- Brian Chesky

#People #Kind
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.
-- Brian Chesky

#Talking #Asking #Want
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.
-- Brian Chesky

#Office #Asking #Want
Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.
-- Brian Chesky

#Overnight Success
If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
-- Brian Chesky

#Focus #That One Person #Want
When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.
-- Brian Chesky

#Art #People #Trying
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.
-- Brian Chesky

#Dream #Growing Up #Thinking
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.
-- Brian Chesky

#Strong #Eye #Long
People went to Dell for the computers, but they go to Apple for everythingâ€¦ Thatâ€™s the difference between a transactional company and a transformational one.
-- Brian Chesky

#Apples #Differences #People
The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.
-- Brian Chesky

#People #Matter #Stuff
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.
-- Brian Chesky

#Sleep #Home #Ebay
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.
-- Brian Chesky

#Home #San Francisco #June
Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.
-- Brian Chesky

#Scales #Teach

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