The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money.

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is - you call it maybe a liberal democracy. It's not only majority rule but also respect for minorities and minority opinions and the rule of law. So it's really a sort of institutional democracy.

Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.