Don't let people who you may respect and who you believe know what they're talking about, don't let them tell you it can't be done because often they….

I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion..

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity..

We believe that business can be a tool for social good..

You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actua….

Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways..

You’re able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish..

People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we c….

I built a system simple enough to sustain itself..

To truly prepare for the unexpected, you've got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens, you're c….

We believe people are basically good. We believe everyone has something to contribute. We encourage you to treat others the way that you want to be t….

We ought to be looking at business as a force for good..

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer..

One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you tal….

In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer..

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you'll be successful. If you start a business be….

I always kind of just went ahead and tried things..

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 ….

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….