Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Gebbia

There's no reason any company should be limited by its physical environment.

For an international business such as ours, you can't localise without a local. That was a hard lesson for us. We had to be closer, physically present, which is when we put teams on the ground.

When trust works out right, it can be absolutely magical.

Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias.

What I've realized is that the joy of meeting and greeting people from all around the world is universal.

Airbnb has proven that hospitality, generosity, and the simple act of trust between strangers can go a long way.

Technology moves so quickly; you can't get comfortable with the business you have today because technology will progress.

A world-changing vision often necessitates a profound simplicity in the user experience.

In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.

We started Airbnb because, like many across the U.S. and in New York, we were struggling to pay our rent and decided to open up our living room to fellow artists coming to town for a design conference. Sharing our apartment allowed us to stay in our home and start our company.

We believe that the best solutions come from solving your own problem. If you have a real problem, there's likely someone else who can relate. That's how Airbnb was born.

The sharing economy is about making use of any idle resource out there. We do love seeing other sharing-economy companies flourish.

To be truly empathetic, we have to acknowledge that we're all human, we're all flawed, and that life can be difficult.

We expect Seoul to be one of our most important markets not only in Asia but around the world.

What if cities embraced a culture of sharing? I see a future of shared cities that bring us community and connection instead of isolation and separation.

Airbnb was born out of necessarity. Our rent went up. It was born out of a problem.

I'll never forget my first Art Basel.

By helping New Yorkers turn their greatest expense - their home - into an asset, Airbnb is a vehicle that artists, entrepreneurs, and innovators can use to earn extra money to pursue their passion.

For me, one of my personal inspirations was designers in the mid-20th century named Charles and Ray Eames.

Staying at Airbnb listings gives me the opportunity to truly understand and experience the local culture of the countries I visit.

As with any new and innovative industry, entrenched interests - particularly the hotel industry - have attempted to squash the home-sharing movement.

When it comes to technology and the home, I really don't want to see any of it.

People assume that the smarter your home, the better your life, but in reality, technology so often gets in the way of leading a good life.

Airbnb is about the nexus of the online and offline to create the perfect customer experience.

Scheduled shipping is one of many inventions that has made New York a global capital of innovation and creativity - from Willis Carrier's invention of air conditioning in Buffalo and George Eastman's breakthrough film technology in Rochester to the rise of hip-hop in the South Bronx and the world's first cell phone call in Midtown Manhattan.

Everything we do, every decision we make, is to ensure the best possible Airbnb experience for our community and grow the love.

We've invented a new marketplace. There was no easy way to rent a person's bedroom over the Internet or book a vacation rental over the Internet. There was no guidebook for us to turn to as we defined this new marketplace.

Airbnb is a trusted online marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world. From a private room to a private island, we offer an entertaining and personal way for travelers to unlock local experiences and see their surroundings through the eyes of a local.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

We built a basic website, and Air Bed and Breakfast was born. Three lucky guests got to stay on a $20 airbed on the hardwood floor. But they loved it. And so did we. We took them on adventures around the city.

From natural disasters to the refugee crises, the impact we can have as individuals might seem limited. But as many of our hosts know, sharing your home for even a few nights can make a tremendous difference in someone's life.

Any time there is a new idea, it can take some time for policy to catch up to it.

Given Miami's unique role in Airbnb's roots, I'm particularly proud of how South Floridians have embraced home sharing as an opportunity to earn supplemental income and catalyze economic development in their communities.

We encourage employees to ship new features on day one, which immediately encourages them to come up with something creative and different.

We didn't invent anything new. Hospitality has been around forever.

I have the privilege of working with our in-house design studio, called Samara, and our humanitarian team, called Human. Samara is thinking about the future of Airbnb, and Human is working on ways to leverage our platform outside the cause of day-to-day business.

As our company has grown, how we configure and design our offices has been a crucial part of how we foster connection and collaboration throughout our teams.

Airbnb has grown thanks to our hosts creating memorable experiences and inspiring their guests to be hosts in their hometowns.

I've experienced firsthand the disconnect between furniture, their environments, and the way people work.

After World War II, communities and the trust they fostered began to erode in the United States. We moved away from dense city centers to fenced in suburban lots separated by broad highways.

Dog-fooding is using your own products so that you understand from inside out what it is you're providing the customers. It's another way to gain insights and to gain intelligence. You use it yourself; you eat your own dog food. Every time we do that, we discover something that we can improve.

Every apartment I've ever lived in has had a space to make, create, and get stuff done within eyesight of my bed.

I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.

Ultimately, the power of the Airbnb platform is that it motivates guests to blend into communities, belong anywhere, and live like locals.

Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.

High reputation beats high similarity.

Creating the future means having a global vision and an extreme focus on the approachability of what we're creating.

In New York, ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with the hustle to survive.

We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was invented in 1920, and here we, 100 years later, it is only now becoming an actual thing. So it doesn't surprise me that new ideas are met with a lot of questions.

As Chief Product Officer, I lead our product team to create simple, intuitive user experiences.

We're a community-driven brand, but at the same time, we want every host in every home to recognize that they're all individuals, and to use Airbnb as an expression of their individuality.

While the Cold War had us questioning our next-door neighbors, big brands emerged to capture our trust. We became consumers.

My role is to think about what the future could be for Airbnb - and that includes crafting an effortless and easy-to-use service on any platform, whether mobile, tablet, or Web.

To me, 'design thinking' is another way of saying empathize with the customer. It's consideration for the person you're designing for.

At Airbnb, we're trying to build a culture that supports details, celebrates them, and gives our teams creative license to pursue them.

Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth.

What we're doing with Airbnb feels like the nexus of everything that is right. We're helping people be more resourceful with the space they already have, and we're connecting people around the world.

The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s.

In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion of community changed drastically. You went from all being very close together to all being spaced apart and slightly suspicious of one another.

We do believe in an inside-out culture. If we hold our hosts and guests to an expectation of acceptance and belonging, it has to start within our company. Otherwise, how on earth do we have the credibility to hold them accountable if we're not doing it to ourselves?