Dara Khosrowshahi

You have to empower your employees to make their own choices and trust that they will make the right choices. ”

Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff. ”

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. ”

My family emigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian revolution in 1978. ”

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. ”

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 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. ”

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. ”

When you go to a voice-based interaction, you can't tell people, 'Ask me this question and structure it in this way.' And if they ask a question, and you have a bad answer, first time, maybe they'll be okay with it. Third time, they're going to say, 'This is a complete waste of time. I'm going away.' ”

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. ”