The key to successful investing is to have a long-term horizon.

Technology can be a powerful tool for development if applied correctly.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand 'I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!' or 'I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!' 'I am homeless, the Government must house me!' and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.

There is no more intrepid a voyager than the philosopher.