I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job. — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good. — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
Ebay's success as a company depends on the success of the community of sellers. — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth. — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
You'll fail at some things - that's a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
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… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share
If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed. — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share
A well-functioning microfinance bank can actually be a profitable business as well. So it became a perfect proof point that, through business, you can… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share
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… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share
In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents. — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share
Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship. — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share
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… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share
People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share
I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much do anything you want. I always kind of just went ahead and… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share
You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful. — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share
Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share
I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share
