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 provide an experience that leads to individual self-empowerment. — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business. — 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
