Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.

If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.

Everything I do now is about growing the pot to have more to give away.