You should focus on being more interested than interesting.

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

I was encouraged to break all the rules but to take the best of philanthropy, the best of investing, and the best of development finance, and experiment with new ways to create this venture capital model of using philanthropy to back patient capital investments, and then build solutions that were measured in terms of the kind of impact and change they were making on people's lives and in the world, not just on the financial return.

Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

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.