California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sun….

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 ….

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….

I felt I was owned by possessions..

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

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

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..

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….

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..

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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….