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

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 tr….

I felt I was owned by possessions..

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'.

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

Brunch is boring, but that's part of the charm of it..

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting..

I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat..

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accep….

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 environ….

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal..

In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 1….

Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can sur….

L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; beca….

The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably g….

Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for ….

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing ….

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not..

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..

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

I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends..