Occupation: Entrepreneur Birth: June 21, 1967
I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well..
What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our members' success, our community's success. We've created an infrastructure and ….
I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting t….
When you look at the accomplishments of accomplished people and you say, “Boy, that must have been really hard,” ... that was probably easy. And conv….
In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've g….
An honest, open environment can bring out the best in people..
I just kind of had this naive approach to - well, gee, you know, why not. I’ll just go ahead and do it..
You’ll fail at some things, that’s a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience... What you learn from tho….
It is not really work if you are having fun..
I want people to be entrepreneurs, but I want them to do it for the right reasons, because they think they can change the world, because they think t….
You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful..
We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of p….
When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected..
By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth..
Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power..
Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything..
In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation - think about doing t….
In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I f….
A lot of people don’t just go ahead and try things. They’ll have an idea and they’ll say — they’ll convince themselves or other people will convince ….
Be an enzyme - a catalyst for change. As a slogan, I don't know if that's ever going to be right up there with Ich Bin Ein Berliner, or “I Have A Dre….
eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, ei….