Occupation: Investor Birth: October 28, 1955
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work.".
By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down..
Thinking about impact on children meant adding to the agenda, both the R&D agenda and the delivery agenda, but it's amazing news, even in the scale o….
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure..
The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world dis….
In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will..
Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years from now than any time in the p….
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years..
If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surpr….
Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society..
We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that ….
The future of advertising is the Internet..
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software..
China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives o….
India just went 3 years with no cases [of polio]. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vacc….
I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years..
When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich peopl….
It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep settin….
You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms ….
For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent new tools, but nobody was doing that b….
There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start t….