Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.

I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

Creativity allows people to be effective.

This [philanthropy] work is even more fascinating. It requires us to think harder about how we build partnerships, who we get behind. And yet we get to see progress that in some ways is even more profound than the great advances that digital technology has provided.