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

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.

It is not really work if you are 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.

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

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 “I Have A Dream,” but there's a lot of truth to it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

One word love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day you won't be able to resist.

Success doesn’t come with ease. As a matter of fact, the darkest lie you may have been told is that you will reap in abundance when you have sowed nothing. It is a big lie!

No, but I mean do you like him? You know, in the carnal sense."I rolled my eyes. "You've clearly been spending too much time with Dex.

I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid, which I've been lucky enough to be several times.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck out on your own ?

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.