"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

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“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
“It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.”

Source : "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
“True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.”

Source : "Why Billion-Dollar, 100-Year-Old Companies DIE" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
“Reason can be used only when looking critically back.”
“Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.”
“We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.”

Source : "‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals How Doubt Can Lead To Happiness" by don Miguel Angel Ruiz, don Jose Ruiz, with Janet Mills, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2013.
“When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.”

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