The personal wealth that's coming is absolutely secondary to the stories that I hear about our users who have given themselves some financial independence as well by starting businesses, and all the lives we've touched positively.
Pierre OmidyarA lot of people donโt just go ahead and try things. Theyโll have an idea and theyโll say โ theyโll convince themselves or other people will convince them that it canโt be done. You know, one or the other. Actually I think that the first is even more dangerous and more serious. Itโs convincing yourself that it canโt be done.
Pierre OmidyarYouโll fail at some things, thatโs 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.
Pierre OmidyarIn 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.
Pierre OmidyarWhen you look at the accomplishments of accomplished people and you say, โBoy, that must have been really hard,โ ... that was probably easy. And conversely, when you look at something that looks easy, that was probably hard. And so youโre never going to know which is which until you actually go and do it.
Pierre Omidyar