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I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.

It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

And what I'm interested in is investing in people.

The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.

I found an approach to investing that made enormous sense to me: rigorously analyzing a company's fundamentals, understanding exactly how it makes money, developing a view on the business's future prospects, and deciding if it's a good business.

Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people invest money, at their own risk, in setting up a business or expanding an existing business.

What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.