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

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.

Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.

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

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.

Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal. Whatever I own is temporary, since we're only here for a short period of time. It's what we do and produce, it's our actions, that will last forever. That's real value.

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