Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

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.

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.

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

What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our members' success, our community's success. We've created an infrastructure and laid some basic ground rules to create this marketplace.

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

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.