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Desperation sometimes drives innovation.
I thought all those channels on cable TV were really cool.
Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.
Companies don't like uncertainty; travelers don't like uncertainty.
If you don't optimize for the consumer on the Internet, you're dead.
My family emigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian revolution in 1978.
As companies get bigger, they tend to slow down. It's a universal law.
I think that, in the end, the consumer's going to win on the Internet.
Rail in Europe is incredibly important as far as a transportation medium.
While Expedia is outbound-focused, Wotif is much more about domestic travel.
Consumers may put off buying a car, but they don't put off buying a vacation.
I think where Trump just has it dead wrong is this is a world of us versus them.
Chinese consumers don't book hotel rooms that are as expensive as U.S. consumers.
Anytime you introduce volatility, it is not good for business and not good for travel.
Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.
When you see the sacrifices that your parents make for you, you want to do well for them.
We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.
A CEO of a multinational global company can't say what to do; you've got to plant the flag.
When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.
We found that travel, especially online travel, has been quite resistant to economic cycles.
Where people work and their environment is becoming more and more important, especially for millennials.
Having a United States passport has been an incredible asset, and I hope that will continue to be the case.
You have to empower your employees to make their own choices and trust that they will make the right choices.
Traveloka is the clear online travel leader in Indonesia and is expanding aggressively throughout Southeast Asia.
One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it's the leader's job to always go against the flow.
It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an immigrant nation.
The American dream is you come here, you believe in democracy, you believe in the Constitution, you work hard, you can make it.
The power of immigration, the power of the American dream, if you think about the American dream, it is the best brand out there.
Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.
There's simply no better company out there doing mobile travel apps with the same level of design sensibility and utility as Mobiata.
When we grew up, our family and kind of gaggle of cousins would go to the south of France for the summers. And we just had a grand time.
As we move over to more of a mobile device-centric world... I think the interaction model with devices is going to be much more voice-based.
I think a lot of Americans don't appreciate just what an incredible country this is, how lucky they are, how safe they are, how empowered they are.
It's definitely a problem inside the technology industry - not just gender discrimination. Diversity is an issue within technology, within Expedia.
What some Americans don't appreciate is how strong the brand of the American Dream is around the world. I'm an example of how powerful that product is.
My wife and I got married on 12/12/12 in Las Vegas, and she was wearing a Slayer T-shirt. That tells you what kind of woman I'm lucky enough to be with.
I think my background, coming from Iran, which is a great country but is going through its share of troubles, really allows me to appreciate what we have here.
Taking big risks combined with having a team you believe in and that believes just as much in you as a leader make for long-term wins, even in a game of inches.
My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six years before returning. My mom was raising three kids without a dad.
Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.
Uber is a company that is redefining the transportation industry on a global basis; to be part of that story is something that is interesting and would be a real privilege.
When you let travelers vote with their clicks, and you put that at the center of your decision-making, you build the product they want, and ultimately, their business will follow.
There's a lot of distrust of the United States, and I certainly see that. But at the same time, everything that I've seen is that the U.S. is a genuine force for good in the world.
We sure didn't feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were - my father and mother left everything behind to come here - to be safe and give their boys a chance to rebuild a life.
My family had to flee Iran... the revolution, and we were very, very lucky to come to America and have opportunities presented to us. And that's... one of the things that makes America great.
As the perception of the United States as a welcoming place for all changes among travelers globally, the country's tourism market, which is a huge revenue generator for the economy, could get hurt.
I think I wanted to be a doctor. In Iran, the engineering and medical professions are worshipped. My father very much wanted me to be a doctor. I was certainly eager to please as a young man - as a kid, I should say.
My family owned a bunch of pharmaceutical manufacturing plants and other consumer-goods manufacturing plants. We would license Western goods and manufacture them in Iran and distribute them throughout the Middle East.
It was a choice between a paint factory in Indianapolis - a management training program to maybe run the paint factory one day - or go to New York City and become an investment banker. It wasn't a very difficult decision.
I think from a personal standpoint, maybe I appreciate a little more that there are two sides to every story, and the way that the U.S. is sometimes is viewed outside of the U.S. can be pretty tough, depending on what the U.S.'s actions are.