We believe that business can be a tool for social good.

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

You’re able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish.

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.

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 have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.

I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.