92 Quotes by Pierre Omidyar

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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