Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Oliver

I wouldn't be surprised if some of it's showing up on eBay in some fashion, ... Some of that stuff can get expensive.

Pierre Omidyar

The interesting thing was, I started eBay off as a hobby so it was free of charge.

David Duchovny

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

Derek Brown

There is no longer a perception that eBay has few meaningful competitors.

Kara Swisher

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

Thomas Friedman

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.

Meg Whitman

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

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

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

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Stuart Freeman

We've been thinking that the Nasdaq, as an index, would likely outperform a lot of the other indexes this year. It's a lot about secular growth. We're seeing growth in technology. And for the most part, it's been a tech year.

Paul Polzin

We've got to go back to the 1970s to get three strong years of 4 percent growth.

Preston Beckman

I think we're relieved and a little shocked that it's showing such growth this year. For us, having maintained the ratings we had last year would have been a plus.

Joe Lieberman

I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector,

Eric Schmidt

I don't know where (Chinese) revenue growth will be, but it will obviously be large.

Benn Steil

He made some mistakes on the growth side.

Ruben Studdard

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

Samuel Smiles

True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

Richard Hofstadter

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him...

Robert M. Pirsig

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

Walter Wriston

The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

Jorge Luis Borges

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.

Joni Mitchell

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

Kurt Andersen

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

James Anthony Froude

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Henry A. Kissinger

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.