The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK.

Visionaries are limited by their visions.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime. Your money could do good in this world and you're choosing instead to waste it. People have to do a better job of that. You've got to find places where your money's going to do some good and direct your dollars towards that institution.