Quotes by Pierre Omidyar

Pierre Omidyar

A lot of people don’t just go ahead and try things. They’ll have an idea and they’ll say — they’ll convince themselves or other people will convince them that it can’t be done. You know, one or the other. Actually I think that the first is even more dangerous and more serious. It’s convincing yourself that it can’t be done.

Convincing Yourself

Ideas

People

An honest, open environment can bring out the best in people.

Environment

Honest

People

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.

Catalyst For Change

Dream

Enzymes

Build a platform – prepare for the unexpected…you’ ll know you’re successful when the platform you’ve built serves you in unexpected ways.

Successful

Unexpected

Way

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

Ebay

Guiding Principles

Simple

Don’t let people who you may respect and who you believe know what they’re talking about, 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.

Believe

Business

Talking

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.

Business

Ebay

Technology

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Born

Equal

Opportunity

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

Giving

Individual

Producers

I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.

Kind

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Able

Accomplish

Accomplishment

Ambition

Believe

Benefits

Book

Born

Boys

Brother

Building

Built

Business

Catalyst For Change

Community

Convincing Yourself

Couple

Development

Distrust

Doors

Dream

Ebay

Enough

Entrepreneur

Environment

Enzymes

Equal

Example

Financial

Force

Fun

Giving

Guiding Principles

Hard Work

Hero

Hobbies

Honest

Ideas

Ifs

Imagination

Independence

Individual

Infrastructure

Ink

Innovation

Inspirational

Interesting

Jobs

Kind

Knows

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Quotes by Pierre Omidyar

Pierre Omidyar

An honest, open environment can bring out the best in people.

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.

Build a platform – prepare for the unexpected…you’ ll know you’re successful when the platform you’ve built serves you in unexpected ways.

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

Don’t let people who you may respect and who you believe know what they’re talking about, 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.

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.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.

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