Dan Schulman

“I am a huge mixed martial arts practitioner.”

“I think that sometimes people talk about disruption, and I've seen tons of startups come in as disruptors and then disappear. And I think what we need to do as an industry is think about a world that is dominated by mobile and software and not extrapolate from what was. And I think a lot of big companies tend to want to do that.”

“I believe that companies that have the opportunity to improve the lives of their customers and communities have the responsibility to do so.”

“We had grown too fast at PayPal. Our operating expenses had grown too fast... Growth covers a lot of sin. We want to grow without sin.”

“When I talk about the ability for fintech to promote kind of economic growth and productive citizens coming in, using different data and being able to lend to small businesses, see those small businesses start to grow - of course, that means more money for their families, you know, the small-business owner families. They start to hire people.”

“It's been with us for a millennium, and we'll still be carrying around cash for a long time to come. There'll just be less of it.”

“When I first went into financial services, people told me not to be too over-optimistic about change.”

“Digital payments have already made it easier to move and manage money. While there's more work to do, the potential is real and understood.”

“When I first entered the corporate world, doing good and making money were seen as separate and contradictory threads. Challenging that notion set my career - and life - on a new course.”

“We take the privacy of our consumers' information as one of the most trusted things that people look to Paypal for, because when it comes to financial services, the single most important brand attribute you can have is trust.”

“Venmo is one of the jewels of Paypal.”

“We all have people who are literally one life shock away from going into a crisis. For many of us, we have a buffer in one way or another. We have a savings account, or we have credit that we can go to. The underserved don't have that luxury.”

“PayPal is a strong business: it has a strong balance sheet and free cash flows, and it will help us take a look at where we want to independently invest.”

“My mom pushed me in a baby carriage at Martin Luther King rallies. My grandfather was a union organizer. And to me, there is no room - no room - for discrimination of any kind. To me, it's just an anathema.”

“In the not-too-distant future, commerce is just going to be commerce. It won't be online commerce or offline commerce. It's just going to be commerce. And that will happen because of the phone.”

“Physical money, whether it's checks or cash or credit card, are digitizing in front of us.”

“In many ways, leadership is about defining reality and inspiring hope, but if you have these great people around you and they know that what they do is going to be recognized, it can be incredibly powerful.”

“In addition to my job at American Express, I'm also chairman of the board of Symantec, one of the leading players in anti-virus and cyber-crime prevention software, so I know firsthand just how sophisticated many of these attacks can be.”

“A lot of people say that I'm an activist CEO. I just think I'm a responsible leader of a business.”

“Online commerce is being replaced by mobile.”