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

I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much do anything you want. I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.

When you look at the accomplishments of accomplished people and you say, “Boy, that must have been really hard,” ... that was probably easy. And conversely, when you look at something that looks easy, that was probably hard. And so you’re never going to know which is which until you actually go and do it.

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 those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones... I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.

In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.

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.

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