Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.

No matter how certain I am about some culture or some group of people, my opinions are only as accurate as the amount of time I've spent with them.

The stronger the culture, the less corporate process a company needs. When the culture is strong, you can trust everyone to do the right thing. People can be independent and autonomous. They can be entrepreneurial.

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.

The people with the passports, the people who travel more, tend to be the most understanding. And it's ironic that the people who travel the least have the strongest opinions about the people they've never met.

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

In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.

I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.

On culture It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.

I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the platform... Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star.

Unless you have fixed costs, you don't need any capital to create a prototype. Ideally, your co-founders, with sweat equity, can create the product themselves.

Culture is a thousand things, a thousand times. It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.

What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world -- it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.

I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook.

Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

My life is longer because of the journeys I have taken.

Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.

Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.

When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.