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 built a system simple enough to sustain itself.

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

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

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 always kind of just went ahead and tried things.

In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.