Brian Chesky Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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