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 ought to be looking at business as a force for good.

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

I built a system simple enough to sustain itself.

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

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

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.