"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."

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

Pierre Omidyar

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #People Quotes

“Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.”
“Build your world around me, and promise to never let me go, and if ever their comes a time it may seem crowded, may we expand so love may grow.”
“Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who confront it. Its rapid, shape-shifting advance has sometimes confounded efforts to comprehend its origins, motives, and aims. Its sophistication in exploiting liberal values poses challenges and difficulties for the Western world, and for liberal democratic states in general, in attaining effective and balanced counter-terrorism policies.”
“Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family.”
“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”
“If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.”
“To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.”
“There will always be critics. On one hand, criticism can be positive. On the other hand, criticism can be negative. But critics will always be watching the game. If you listen to everybody, you can go crazy. I have my own point of view, and I always try to keep it.”

Source : "Ovechkin: 'There will always be critics'". Interview with Brett Forrest, www.espn.com. December 12, 2011.

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