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.

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.

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.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

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

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.