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.

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.

A lot of people don’t just go ahead and try things. They’ll have an idea and they’ll say — they’ll convince themselves or other people will convince them that it can’t be done. You know, one or the other. Actually I think that the first is even more dangerous and more serious. It’s convincing yourself that it can’t be done.

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

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

We ought to be looking at business as a force for good.