I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.