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

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

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 them that it can’t be done. You know, one or the other. Actually I think that the first is even more dangerous and more serious. It’s convincing yourself that it can’t be done.

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.

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 of trust, either in the other person or the system.

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 will tell you it can't be done, and it's just because they don't have the courage to try.

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