You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.

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

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

In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.

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

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.

I just kind of had this naive approach to - well, gee, you know, why not. I’ll just go ahead and do it.