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

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.

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.

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.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.