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What people want is a sense of a better future to come.

It's about passion, and if somebody is passionate about a development deal, they're going to get it made.

People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.

People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

Some people just get what they want in the world.

There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.

In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.

I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.