Uber Quotes

• When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Iphone, Car

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". "TED Radio Hour" Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• If the slogan for Google is 'Don't be evil', then the slogan for Uber is 'Do a little bit of evil & don't get caught.'

  Peter Thiel

  Evil, Google, Littles

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• Our whole goal is to drive the cost of taking an Uber BELOW the cost of owning a car.

  Travis Kalanick

  Goal, Car, Cost

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• Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It’s for the experience.

  Travis Kalanick

  Nice, Iphone, Phones

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• We like to think of Uber as the cross between lifestyle and logistics, where lifestyle is what you want and logistics is how you get it there.

  Travis Kalanick

  Thinking, Logistics, Want

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• Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’

  Marc Andreessen

  Crazy, Character, Technology

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• We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.

  Scot McKnight

  Dream, Spiritual, Jesus

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• I myself have invested in Uber and Hailo, I think they offer great alternatives to disrupt markets that have remained unchanged for many years.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Years, Alternatives

  "'Our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point': As he gives £1m to UK start-ups Richard Branson reveals why he's backing the sharing economy". Interview with Eleanor Lawrie, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• Our tenants now are companies like Uber, the taxi service, Meituan.com, China's version of Groupon - and a large number of startups. These companies operate in a modern way, just like their customers: They go on the Internet, look for an offer and take it.

  Zhang Xin

  Numbers, Looks, Goes On

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was very compelled by a woman who would choose this profession. She [Maura Isles] came from a very highly-educated, wealthy background and could have chosen to do a lot of other things, and has this uber-feminine, modern woman mentality, but works this job.

  Sasha Alexander

  Jobs, Modern Woman, Feminine

  Source: collider.com

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• Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

  Aaron Levie

  Doe, World, Lessons

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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• I think, year in, year out, Google is starting to get worse instead of better. I think this is happening to a lot of the web companies, is as their demand to increase the payload they deliver in ads increases, they end up degrading and corrupting their own services. And you can see it with Google Maps, you can see it with Google Directions, where somehow Uber is, you know, always one of the options. And it's becoming exactly what they said was what they never wanted, which is a pay-for service where the highest bidder gets the best results.

  Tim Wu

  Thinking, Years, Google

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you have to keep telling us that Hillary Clinton’s uber-qualified, there must be some doubt about it. It must not be self-evident. It must not be apparent. And the reason it is not apparent and self-evident is because it isn’t true. The woman is no more qualified to be president than anybody else.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Self, Doubt, President

  "Hillary Clinton: The Most Prepared Candidate to Be Impeached if Elected". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. October 5, 2016.

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• About Jimi Hendrix - although his playing is at an uber-level, his voice is quite lo-fi and normal, like a regular person singing in the shower, and this makes his music much better than if he was just a technical player and singer.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Player, Voice, Singing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• ulturally, we are definitely seeing people being to ask hard questions. There's been a major shift over the last year. The NSA revelations played a big part but there are all sorts of other issues too, like inequality and gentrification in the Bay Area, and labor abuses everywhere from Amazon's warehouse, to Apple's factories, to start-ups like Uber and TaskRabbit.

  Astra Taylor

  Years, Nsa, Apples

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Directors, Cards, Tonight

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• I think I'm not uber into the comedy scene, but I love to laugh, especially in our business, where you're always front and center over an extremely, sometimes overly-critical live audience. I think it helps to laugh.

  John Cena

  Thinking, Laughing, Helping

  "CS Interview: WWE Superstar John Cena Slams Amy Schumer in Trainwreck". Interview with Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. July 14, 2015.

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• I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

  Kristian Bush

  Yoga, Book, Writing

  "Sugarland Reveals the Power of Yoga". Interview with Craig Shelburne, www.cmt.com. August 10, 2007.

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• I'm not a very organized person for being uber work-obsessed. I struggle to keep it all organized because everything can become important and, when you have so many spinning plates, they sometimes can cancel each other out because you lose track of everything.

  Drew Barrymore

  Struggle, Spinning Plates, Track

  "Drew Barrymore on her new gig, motherhood, and Adam Sandler". "Entertainment Weekly" Interview, www.cnn.com. January 09, 2014.

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• A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.

  David Mamet

  Play, Two, Mind

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• There are 100's of thousands of Uber partners, and we are creating 50,000 jobs per month.

  Travis Kalanick

  Jobs, Creating, Months

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• When theres no other dude in the car, the cost of taking an Uber anywhere becomes cheaper than owning a vehicle. So the magic there is, you basically bring the cost below the cost of ownership for everybody, and then car ownership goes away.

  Travis Kalanick

  Car, Magic, Cost

  "Uber riders to be able to hail self-driving cars for first time" by Samuel Gibbs, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2016.

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• I have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function. The super idea is fairly important in the classical pattern, but it appears to be unnecessary in the prototypal and functional patterns. I now see my early attempts to support the classical model in JavaScript as a mistake.

  Douglas Crockford

  Mistake, Writing, Ideas

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• Create content that satisfies your uber goals and desires.

  Tom Webster

  Goal, Marketing, Desire

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• I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can't do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I'm exhausted and feel like I'm running in fumes.

  Marcia Cross

  Girl, Running, Next Day

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