In some cultures, when you give someone a gift, it's expected that they will pass it on. This seems like a peculiar practice in the West, but in many other societies, a gift has a spirit. If you try to possess the gift, you remove its spirit as a gift.

I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.

Reputation will become an even more important currency in the future.

It is important to understand that the most important currency is social debt. Doing things for others. In order to get, you have to give.

It's ok to say I don't know. Realizing this earlier in my career would have put me more at ease.

Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.

Look at Google. They are re-organizing their businesses ,even renaming it with Alphabet, so they can be bolder and make strategic mistakes and then learn from them. But most companies aren't Google in that they make incremental changes and don't go for the moon shot.