Don't let people who you may respect and who you believe know what they're talking about, don't let them tell you it can't be done because often they will tell you it can't be done, and it's just because they don't have the courage to try.

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.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

It is not really work if you are having fun.

When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.

What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

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.