Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, ….

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation..

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways..

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into….

I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policyma….

Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government….

By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to….

You should focus on being more interested than interesting..

I've learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one….

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent..

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force..

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us..

So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust….

I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people..

I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist..

1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions of metric tons ….

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself..

Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will te….

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world..

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in or….

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written..