In My Teens I Was Interested In Photography. Then I Decided That I Should Learn Something About The World Of Commerce. And I Came To America At Age 17 To Escape Europe. I Went To Nyu - Nothing Better Than Being 17 Years Old And Coming To New York.
Most Countries In Africa Have The Capacity To Be Great Agricultural Producers, But They Do Only Subsistence Production. So A Family Will Produce For Themselves And Nothing More. Why? Because Of The Systems: The Markets Are Not There To Go Beyond.
L.a. Is Very Special To Me, So Far Away From My World On The East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's A Bit Of An Island For Me - Less Intense, Less Busy; Because Of Time Difference And Location, It Has A Calming Effect. At Least It Used To Be All That.
I Wish I Was A Great Writer Or A Great Journalist Or A Great Scientist Or A Great Artist; I'm Not.
If You Erased New York, I Hate To Say It, If You Erased Frankfurt, Even London, The World Would Not Have Changed.
Commodity Exchanges Have A Lot Of Advantages. One, You Are Helping Transparency. Two, They Are Not Political. It's Institutional Building. It Can Survive Any Environment, In Theory.
Possessing Things Is Not That Interesting. Living In A Grand Environment To Show Myself And Others That I Have Wealth Has Zero Appeal.
California Is A Place Of Invention, A Place Of Courage, A Place Of Vision, A Place Of The Future. People Who Made California What It Is Were Willing To Take Risks, Think Outside Convention And Build.
I Don't Have A House, And I Don't Have A Lot Of Time For Socializing, So Every Year I Have A Party For All Of My Friends.
California Has Something Which Not Every Place In The World Has: It Has What I Would Call A Sunny Side, And I Don't Mean Just Physically, But The Sunny Side Is A Future. California's Worth Saving, To Put It Bluntly.
