I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.

Whatever the career, sales ability distinguishes superstars from also-rans.

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.

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.

I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education.... People are on these tracks. They are getting these credentials and it's very unclear how viable they are in many cases.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

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