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  • I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay. -- Chelsea Leyland
  • Ebay's success as a company depends on the success of the community of sellers. -- Pierre Omidyar
  • I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married. I don't do the chat rooms anymore, but I have become completely addicted to Ebay. -- Jane Green
  • The less concerned with aesthetics and usability these friends and family members are, the more easily they navigate sites and applications I can't make head nor hair of. Like the ex-girlfriend who mastered Ebay. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
  • I usually bring a point and shoot with me so I can go out on the weekends and shoot a bit. I used to bring more cameras, but I'm also an Ebay nut so sometimes I'll order something if I'm really pining for it when I'm on location. -- Anton Yelchin
  • Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce -- Meg Whitman
  • I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants. -- Heidi Julavits
  • I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it. -- Marc Jacobs
  • I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job. -- Pierre Omidyar
  • By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth. -- Pierre Omidyar
  • If you can't play as good or as fast as me, just give up, sell your guitar on eBay and kill yourself. -- John Petrucci
  • I was collecting Barbies. I know... embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things. -- Kristin Bauer van Straten
  • Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once. -- Roy Blunt
  • 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. -- Pierre Omidyar
  • I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay... but I'm not going to. -- Katie Aselton
  • EBay may be a shark in the ocean, but I'm a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win, -- Jack Ma
  • 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
  • In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others. -- Vinod Khosla
  • If I had the flag that Betsy Ross worked so hard on, I wouldn't destroy it. I'd put it up on EBay because it's gotta be worth some serious coin. And that is the American way. -- Paul Provenza
  • If we're honest with ourselves, our user experience hadn't kept up with the competition. In the first ten years eBay created the market. Now we're positioning ourselves to innovate off our core platform. This is not a project. We're never done. -- John Donahoe
  • 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
  • Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now. -- Michael Nesmith
  • The federal government... announced a plan to spend, like, a trillion of taxpayer dollars to buy out bad mortgages and debt. Wall Street was surprisingly enthusiastic about the plan to save their (butts) with other peoples' money. It was either that, or Sarah Palin's idea to sell it all on eBay. -- Bill Maher
  • Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries. -- Meg Whitman
  • 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
  • Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right. -- Eric Ries
  • I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay. -- Sarah Palin
  • What, eBay isn't good enough for us? -- James Patterson
  • PayPal is a business that will be bigger than eBay, -- John Donahoe
  • Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic. -- Brett Hull
  • My weaknesses are women in high heels, freedom under siege, and ebay. (Steele) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Today, over one million people now make their living on eBay, which is astounding. -- Niklas Zennstrom
  • I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay. -- David Duchovny
  • If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice. -- Keith Rabois
  • I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay. -- Edie Campbell
  • You owe dough? You ain't give up that cheese? Hey... Sooner or later, you'll Pay, Pal (no eBay). -- Joell Ortiz
  • What's an eBay?" "A mythical place of great magical power." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray (City of Bones) -- Cassandra Clare
  • In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good. -- Pierre Omidyar
  • It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies. -- Kara Swisher
  • If I hear any more loud voices, you will both be auctioned off on eBay. I could use the extra money. -- J.R. Rain
  • EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it. -- Jack Ma
  • When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen. -- Sophie Kinsella
  • When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!" -- Mike Royer
  • History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook. -- Irving Azoff
  • Although eBay is a fantastic tool for collectors who want to buy or sell, you really have to have knowledge of items before you embark. -- Judith Miller
  • eBay started with a core focus on the collector. At the time of its S-1, six or seven percent of its total sales were Beanie Babies. -- Jeff Jordan
  • I've been lucky enough to be involved in a number of great startups, including eBay and Wikia as an entrepreneur and LinkedIn and Paypal as an investor. -- Gil Penchina
  • When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods and services. -- Meg Whitman
  • 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. -- Pierre Omidyar
  • Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of taxpayers' money into the mail-order catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay. -- Thomas Friedman
  • With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to tilt in favor of the big, established players. -- Chellie Pingree
  • When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay. -- Lois Lowry
  • I think if you look at the commonalities between eBay, PayPal and OpenTable, all three are businesses that built a network in a vertical. Network effect businesses are very attractive businesses. -- Jeff Jordan
  • When I first started buying shoes with my own money, I would always get them from eBay. I used to hack my mum's account, and suddenly these white cowboy leather boots would arrive. -- Suki Waterhouse
  • The idea that Google, Yahoo, and eBay are getting a free ride is absolutely unfair criticism. We have to build out our own infrastructure. And we have to inter-connect to the public Internet. -- Vint Cerf
  • From what I was able to hear," Dane said, "Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay." "Social Services," I said. "She hasn't thought of eBay yet. -- Lisa Kleypas
  • Is Amazon truly the best online buying experience? Absolutely not. Is eBay the best platform for auction? Probably not. Are dating sites like match.com really a reflection of the way people date? Probably not. -- Danny Rimer
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