Pierre Omidyar Quotes

I had always been interested in markets - specifically, the theory that in financial markets, goods will trade at a fair value only when everyone has access to the same information.

Pierre Omidyar

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• College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • American
  • Dream
  • College

• I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Value
  • Gold

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Respect
  • Value
  • Face

• I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Great
  • Important
  • Political

• We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Good
  • Financial
  • Crisis

• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

  

  Oliver North
  • Country
  • School
  • War

• What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Value

• We are responsible for our incredulity.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Responsible
  • Our

• A major attack on our cyber systems could shut down our critical infrastructure - financial systems, communications systems, electric grids, power plants, water treatment centers, transportation systems and refineries - that allows us to run our economy and protect the safety of Americans.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Power
  • Water
  • Financial

• I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Value
  • Confidence
  • Sex

• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Value
  • Gold
  • Diamonds

• More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Men
  • Money
  • Value

• Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• I was making $150 a week in workshop. It was a rough year. I had trouble paying the rent. But I had evenings free to spend with my wife, Olive, and our baby daughter. In terms of family-building, it was one of the most blessed years of my life.

  

  Ben Harney
  • Life
  • Family
  • Free

• Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Perfect
  • Poetry

• 'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.

  

  Joe Dante
  • Together
  • True
  • Movie

• Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go.

  

  John Oliver
  • Up
  • Done
  • Job

• I had always been interested in markets - specifically, the theory that in financial markets, goods will trade at a fair value only when everyone has access to the same information.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Value
  • Financial