Ebay Quotes

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

Marc Jacobs

Europe, Computer, Know How

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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

Believe, Self, Should Have

Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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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

Looks, Internet, Crash

Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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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

Stupid, Army, Rifles

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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

Education, Country, Fall

Interview with Teddy Davis, abcnews.go.com. November 17, 2009.

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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

Ocean, Fighting, Winning

"Standing Up to Ebay" by Justin Doebele, www.forbes.com. April 18, 2005.

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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, People

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

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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

Success, Real, People

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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

Business, Thinking, Power

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

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

Pierre Omidyar

Simple, Guiding Principles, Growth

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What's an eBay?" "A mythical place of great magical power." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray (City of Bones)

Cassandra Clare

Cities, Bones, Jace

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If anything, I believe that when I die, I will have to stand in front of all the children who went to bed hungry while I was on earth and read aloud a list of my eBay purchases. I shudder to think of it. Explaining to a poor child with a swollen belly why I didn't give his village fifty cents a week but spent twenty-seven dollars in a bidding war for a Mars Attacks coffee cup.

Dana Gould

Children, War, Coffee

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You owe dough? You ain't give up that cheese? Hey...
Sooner or later, you'll Pay, Pal (no eBay).

Joell Ortiz

Giving Up, Rap, Hip Hop

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Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.

Meg Whitman

World, Commerce, Defined

Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. January 24, 2008.

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For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.

Meg Whitman

Country, Ideas, Expansion

Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. January 24, 2008.

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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, Challenges

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

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It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to highlight the need for action on poverty in Africa, and for which so many artists and others are donating their valuable time for nothing [on people selling Live8 concert tickets on eBay]

James Purnell

Artist, People, Cynical

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Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.

Brett Hull

Forgery

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As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.

Chad Hurley

Success, Business, Powerful

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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

Growth, Intellectual, Small Business

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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

Baby, Perseverance, People

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eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done without the Web. The second thing was what Pierre said: "People have met their best friends on eBay. What this has enabled is truly online community."

Meg Whitman

Friendship, Two, People

"Q&A: A Talk with Meg Whitman". Interview with Stephen B. Shepard, www.bloomberg.com. March 19, 2001.

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Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission." "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered. "Selling them on what?" Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.

Cassandra Clare

Weapons, Selling, Jace

Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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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

Mother, Baby, Able

Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.183, St. Martin's Press

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Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the skate/punk scene of the 80s. We were so shell-shocked from the attacks that we sort of regressed into this childlike mode of filling our apartment with '80s memorabilia. We got all of our favorite skateboard decks off of eBay, bought a bunch of old independent trucks, we got a credit card so that we could buy 720 off of a videogame vendor, we sat around listening to T.S.O.L. and The Misfits playing 720 and pretending that we were still living in our childhood.

Rick Remender

Independent, Oakland, California

Source: www.ign.com

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