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33 quotes by Pierre Omidyar

Pierre Morad Omidyar (Persian: پیر مراد امیدیار , born June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of the eBay auction site. He became a billionaire at the age of 31 with eBay's 1998 Initial Public Offering (IPO). Omidyar and his wife Pamela are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand their efforts beyond nonprofits to include...
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Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

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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... →

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If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.

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If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

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News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but... →

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In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

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A lot of people don't just go ahead and try things.

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Ebay's success as a company depends on the success of the community of sellers.

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I do like to fly under the radar. When I walk around town, the only people I want to recognise me and call me by my name are the folks at Starbucks.

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I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

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In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents.

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

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You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.

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