Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.

Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.

My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.