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People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we could create an auction, we could create a real marketplace. And that's really what triggered my imagination, if you will, and that's what I did.

Topics: Real, Imagination, People, Bulletin Board

quote you should pursue your passion if you re passionate about something and you work hard pierre omidyar Quotes

It is not really work if you are having fun.

Topics: Fun, Procrastination, Having Fun

Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.

Topics: Successful, Way, Unexpected

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

source: - "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

Topics: Success, Hard Work, Passion, Passion And Success, Wrong Reasons

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.

source: - "Online Extra: Pierre Omidyar on "Connecting People"". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2005.

Topics: Business, Technology, Numbers, Social Media Marketing, Digital Media

I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.

source: - "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

Topics: Passion, Thinking, Done

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.

Topics: Brother, Ebay, Parent

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

Topics: People, Stranger, Distrust

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

source: - "eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar On Why He’s Dropped $1 Billion To Make The World A Better Place" by Eleanor Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

Topics: Opportunity, Born, Equal, Equal Opportunity

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

Topics: Development, Tablets, Firsts

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.

Topics: Believe, Talking, People

We believe that business can be a tool for social good.

Topics: Believe, Tools, Social, Social Good

You'll fail at some things - that's a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience. What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones...I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.

Topics: Mistake, Past, Ebay

In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation - think about doing that in philanthropy.

Topics: Thinking, Innovation, Way

I want people to be entrepreneurs, but I want them to do it for the right reasons, because they think they can change the world, because they think they have got something of value to give to the world. Not because they think they can make a lot of money.

source: - "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

Topics: Thinking, Giving, People

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

source: - "Online Extra: A Talk with Pierre Omidyar". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. November 29, 2004.

Topics: Long, People, Term

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.

Topics: Business, Thinking, Ebay, Social Impact, Efficient Markets

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.

source: - "Online Extra: Pierre Omidyar on "Connecting People". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2005.

Topics: Technology, Ebay, Firsts

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.

Topics: Independence, Stories, Financial, Personal Wealth, Financial Independence

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

source: - "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

Topics: Inspirational, Mean, Passion, Passion And Success, Enthusiasm Passion

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you'll be successful. If you start a business because you think you're going to make a lot of money at it, then you probably won't be successful, because that's the wrong reason to start a business. 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.

source: - "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

Topics: Business, Believe, Hard Work

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.

Topics: Want, Kind, Notion

To truly prepare for the unexpected, you've got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens, you're close enough to squeeze through.

Topics: Couple, Opportunity, Doors

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.

Topics: Believe, Hard Work, Successful

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

Topics: Successful, Technology, Interesting

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.

Topics: Success, Real, Ebay

I always kind of just went ahead and tried thingsâ€¦

Topics: Kind

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

Topics: Trying, Building, Program

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

Topics: Poverty, Entrepreneurship, Poor, Microcredit

An honest, open environment can bring out the best in people.

Topics: People, Honest, Environment

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

Topics: Unexpected

I built a system simple enough to sustain itself.

Topics: Simple, Enough

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

Topics: Giving, Individual, Producers

Be an enzyme - a catalyst for change. As a slogan, I don't know if that's ever going to be right up there with Ich Bin Ein Berliner, or â€œI Have A Dream,â€ but there's a lot of truth to it.

Topics: Dream, Enzymes, Catalyst, Catalyst For Change

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... the first is even more dangerous and serious. It's convincing yourself that it can't be done.

Topics: Ideas, People, Trying

When you look at the accomplishments of accomplished people and you say, 'Boy, that must have been really hard,'...that was probably hard. And conversely, when you look at something that looks easy, that was probably hard. And so you're never going to know which is which until you actually go out and do it.

Topics: Boys, Accomplishment, People

You're able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish.

Topics: Able, Accomplish

I just kind of had this naÃ¯ve approach to - well, gee, you know, why not. I'll just go ahead and do it.

Topics: Why Not, Kind, Approach

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

Topics: Jobs, Ebay, Sides, Day Jobs

One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you talk to people who speak a different language.

Topics: Voice, People, Trying, Different Languages, Culture Shock

We believe people are basically good. We believe everyone has something to contribute. We encourage you to treat others the way that you want to be treated.

Topics: Believe, People, Want

You’ll fail at some things, that’s a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience... What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones... I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.

source: - "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

Topics: Mistake, Past, Ebay

You’re able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish.

source: - "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

Topics: Able, Accomplish

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.

source: - "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

Topics: Convincing Yourself, Ideas, People

I've been asked before, "Who are your heroes?" and these types of questions. I always find it hard to identify a single person or a single book or this sort of thing. I've always been forward looking. I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much anything you want. You're able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish. I was given a sense of confidence and I never really felt the need to - or I've never had the benefit, I should probably say - of being inspired by outside heroes.

source: - "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

Topics: Book, Hero, Benefits

What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our members' success, our community's success. We've created an infrastructure and laid some basic ground rules to create this marketplace.

Topics: Ground Rules

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.

Topics: Return On Investment

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