Pierre Omidyar quotes

In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up. (Pierre Omidyar)
Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity. View quote
Pierre Omidyar
I had always been interested in markets - specifically, the theory that in financial markets, goods will trade at a fair value only when everyone has access to the same information. View quote
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I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying. View quote
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If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed. View quote
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Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power. View quote
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In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business. View quote
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In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation - think about doing that in philanthropy. View quote
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If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things. View quote
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In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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