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.

I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.

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.

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.

When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology