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

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

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….

I just kind of had this naive approach to - well, gee, you know, why not. I’ll just go ahead and do it..

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

I built a system simple enough to sustain itself..

I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job..

The personal wealth that's coming is absolutely secondary to the stories that I hear about our users who have given themselves some financial indepen….

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I a….

An honest, open environment can bring out the best in people..

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things..

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….

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity..

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

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….

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….

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