I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.

The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.