Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

I am results-oriented.

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.