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.

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

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.

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.