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You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

Pierre Omidyar

Success, Hard Work, Passion

The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.

Pierre Omidyar

Successful, Way, Unexpected

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People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we could create an auction, we could create a real marketplace. And that's really what triggered my imagination, if you will, and that's what I did.

Pierre Omidyar

Real, People, Imagination

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It is not really work if you are having fun.

Pierre Omidyar

Fun, Procrastination, Ifs

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When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.

Pierre Omidyar

Unexpected, Knows

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Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Pierre Omidyar

Long, People, Term

"Online Extra: A Talk with Pierre Omidyar". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. November 29, 2004.

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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, Thinking, Way

"The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

Pierre Omidyar

Business, Technology, Numbers

"Online Extra: Pierre Omidyar on "Connecting People"". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2005.

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Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

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Trying, Building, Program

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I want people to be entrepreneurs, but I want them to do it for the right reasons, because they think they can change the world, because they think they have got something of value to give to the world. Not because they think they can make a lot of money.

Pierre Omidyar

Thinking, People, Giving

"The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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

Pierre Omidyar

Giving, Individual, Producers

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

Pierre Omidyar

People, Honest, Environment

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

Pierre Omidyar

Believe, Hard Work, Successful

"The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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You’ll fail at some things, that’s a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience... What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones... I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.

Pierre Omidyar

Mistake, Past, Ebay

"The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you'll be successful. 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. You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.

Pierre Omidyar

Business, Work, Believe

"The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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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.

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Believe, People, Want

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You’re able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish.

Pierre Omidyar

Able, Accomplish

"The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Pierre Omidyar

Opportunity, Born, Equal

"eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar On Why He’s Dropped $1 Billion To Make The World A Better Place" by Eleanor Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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To truly prepare for the unexpected, you've got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens, you're close enough to squeeze through.

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Couple, Opportunity, Doors

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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

Business, Technology, Ebay

"Online Extra: Pierre Omidyar on "Connecting People". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2005.

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The personal wealth that's coming is absolutely secondary to the stories that I hear about our users who have given themselves some financial independence as well by starting businesses, and all the lives we've touched positively.

Pierre Omidyar

Independence, Stories, Financial

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I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.

Pierre Omidyar

Inspirational, Passion, Ambition

"The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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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.

Pierre Omidyar

Convincing Yourself, Ideas, People

"The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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I've been asked before, "Who are your heroes?" and these types of questions. I always find it hard to identify a single person or a single book or this sort of thing. I've always been forward looking. I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much anything you want. You're able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish. I was given a sense of confidence and I never really felt the need to - or I've never had the benefit, I should probably say - of being inspired by outside heroes.

Pierre Omidyar

Book, Hero, Benefits

"The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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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

Community, Infrastructure, Members

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