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

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

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.

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

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 treated.

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

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 they have got something of value to give to the world. Not because they think they can make a lot of money.