Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.

If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That's why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.

How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.