We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.

What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.

How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.

What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.