Top 71 Quotes & Sayings by Pierre Omidyar - Page 2

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I built a system simple enough to sustain itself.

I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.

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.

When you look at the accomplishments of accomplished people and you say, “Boy, that must have been really hard,” ... that was probably easy. 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 and do it.

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