First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund.

If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.

In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now).

Forget startup companies. The next frontier is startup countries.

There are quite a lot of people who think my aspirations are not possible. That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about these people very much, because since they don't think it's possible they won't take us very seriously- and they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late.