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I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.

I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.

I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks.

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

Philanthropy is activism.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.