Pierre Omidyar Quotes

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I created a system of the feedback forum, which I'm very proud of because it has been copied gazillions of times and it was my idea. It allows people to kind of rate each other and give feedback on how their transaction went.
Pierre Omidyar

I was born in Paris, Paris, France. I lived there until I was six years old actually, and I went to bilingual school as I was growing up during that period so I learned English. And at age six moved to the United States…
Pierre Omidyar

My mom and my dad. They were separated when I was two, I think, but my dad was always part of my life. I lived with my mom, but my dad was always around.
Pierre Omidyar

You know, why not. I'll just go ahead and do it.
Pierre Omidyar

I always wanted to be involved with computers.
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I was pursuing my passion.
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You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then… you'll be successful.
Pierre Omidyar

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.
Pierre Omidyar

You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and the hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.
Pierre Omidyar

When I say that I believe people are basically good, it's because I believe people are basically good.
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I'm very excited by the prospect of what we haven't seen yet.
Pierre Omidyar

[As Chairman and founder of eBay.] I kind of like it when people stay at eBay.
Pierre Omidyar

The best way to have an impact in the world today is to use technology wisely.
Pierre Omidyar

From the time we made the acquisition, we knew paypal was going to be a critical platform for the internet.
Pierre Omidyar

[On the Pez story.] It wasn’t completely made up. There’s always an element of truth to it… We can blame that on PR people.
Pierre Omidyar

I’ve been passionate about the role of journalism in democracy for the last several years… I’ve been really dismayed by the decline of the journalism industry generally.
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I just wiped up some code…
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[On eBay in 2002] We have a duty to bring it to as many people as we can.
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I really started the company on the notion that people are basically good.
Pierre Omidyar

[On eBay sellers not delivering in 2002.] Historically it’s been 30 out of a 1,000,000 transactions.
Pierre Omidyar



Don’t take no for an answer…
Pierre Omidyar



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