I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.'
The country's top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards.
In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'
I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.
The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down.
Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.
I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
