You should focus on being more interested than interesting.

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, to have the patience to start and let the work teach you, to be willing to lead when you need to lead, and to listen. To have a sense of generosity and empathy, but not over-empathy, because accountability is so critical to building solutions that work.

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

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

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.