Pierre Omidyar Quotes
101 Pierre Omidyar Quotes (eBay, Pierre Morad Omidyar, Omidyar Network)
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[On eBay.] It was an experiment.
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[On the original idea for eBay.] Lots of lots of people have told me that was crazy.
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I always kind of just went ahead and tried things…
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It is not really work, you know, if you are having fun…
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Reward experimentation and risk-taking rather than punish failure.
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People are basically good. We all try to do a good job. We all try to do our best.
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You know, I didn’t set out to create a company or anything like that. I had a day job.
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We were profitable from day one, actually, from the moment we started charging.
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Here’s the crazy thing, is that it is an incredibly simplistic and simple model. I mean, it is simple and simplistic.
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I knew that if I built the company to a certain level, that I was not the one to take it sort of to the next level… It needed a professional CEO.
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What I really tried to do was learn as much as possible from the people that came before me…
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[On defining philanthropy.] Philanthropy really defined in its original sense… is… a lot of humankind and trying to make the world a better place.
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[On focusing on philanthropy.] I saw the opportunity to try to bring all sectors of society together and solve… big problems.
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Translate a vision into reality.
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Empower the individual.
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I'm particularly inspired by problems that seem easily solvable.
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I'll just do it. I'll just show them.
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[On the initial growth of eBay’s revenue.] Within six months it was earning revenue that was paying my costs. Within nine months the revenue was more than I was making on my day job…
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You have to build trust before you will enter into a transaction.
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You can't predict growth and success…
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A lot of people don't just go ahead and try things.
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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.
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I think nice guys can make it.
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A little bit of disrespect of the elders, of what came before you, I think is important.
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I think respecting your elders is not a bad thing…
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When you give people the tools they need to be successfully by, you’re basically creating opportunity for them to make success however they define it.
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What you learn from… challenges and… failures are what will get you past the next ones.
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I didn’t sit down and say, ‘Hey, I’m gonna be innovative today.’ I really was trying to experiment with new tools.
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I am a software engineer.
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The great thing about the web – you know, especially in those days and still today – is that once you put something out there, you started getting feedback right away from people.
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By August of ’96, I had found somebody to help me build the company. And we both quit our day jobs and devoted ourselves full time to building that company.
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During that first two-year period we were growing 20 to 50 percent every month, every single month. And some months were 70 percent. But on that – for two years – sustained growth like that, I don’t think anybody’s, you know, ever done that.
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If somebody does something nice for you, wouldn’t it be nice in this world if we could actually start recognizing that?
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It’s very gratifying yourself to be able to give praise to somebody else.
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There’s something about an entrepreneur that is somewhat is sort of anti-establishment, somewhat disrespectful of the previous generation. And although that can grate people the wrong way a little bit, that’s really an important element, actually.
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You need to be passionate about what you want to work on…
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Don’t take no for an answer when people out there are giving you advice and saying, ‘No, this will never work.’
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Look at eBay – the idea that in 1995 you could create something over the Internet, which is this brand-new thing that nobody, you know, was really using at the time except for scientists and academics. And it would be a place where strangers could actually do business with one another, could actually, like exchange merchandise for money, without ever meeting. You know, and the notion that people could actually buy and sell cars over the Internet, I mean, that’s crazy, right?
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The latest shiny toy at the time was the web; was interactivity.
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[On building the initial eBay code.] It took really just a weekend of work. And I was working, you know, pretty much all day and all that weekend. And I think it was Labor Day of 1995, September 4th or 5th, ’95, that I was able to, that morning to basically turn it on. I’d had it uploaded to my internet service provider, so it was publicly available, turn it on and that was Auction Web.
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