Pierre Omidyar Quotations..

• I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.
  Pierre Omidyar # Job, Products, Enjoyment Quotes
• Whatever future you're building… Don't try to program everything. 5 Year Plans never worked for the Soviet Union - in fact, if anything, central planning contributed to its fall. Chances are, central planning won't work any better for any of us.
  Pierre Omidyar # Future, Planning, Advice Quotes
• What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our members' success, our community's success. We've created an infrastructure and laid some basic ground rules to create this marketplace.
  Pierre Omidyar # Success, Customers, Company, Improvement Quotes
• 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.
  Pierre Omidyar # Brands, Business, Idea, Concept Quotes
• 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.
  Pierre Omidyar # Passion, Solutions, Problem Quotes
• By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.
  Pierre Omidyar # Company, Organization, Growth Quotes
• We believe people are basically good. We believe everyone has something to contribute. We encourage you to treat others the way that you want to be treated.
  Pierre Omidyar # Belief, Good, Society, Positive Quotes
• Despite the enormous variety of human experience and beliefs, we are all fundamentally interested in the pursuit of a better quality of life for ourselves, our children, and our families.
  Pierre Omidyar # Experience, Life, Belief, Quality, Family, Future Quotes
• When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.
  Pierre Omidyar # Internet, Brands, Help, Idea Quotes
• Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected... …And you'll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.
  Pierre Omidyar # Challenging, Success, Result Quotes

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