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.

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.

Some say if you want success surround yourself with successful people. I say if you want true and lasting success surround yourself with people of integrity.

People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person.

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because there's so many distractions.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine."