Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed.

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

How you see where you are always depends on where you've been.

I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.