One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

A lot of young people dont think they can make a difference. Thats really what I am at Dartmouth to do. Im there to tell the young people, Look, a few committed souls can change the world.

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

There will be water and food fights everywhere.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.

THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.

Every ball that is kicked, Martin O'Neill will be literally kicking it

Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

Language uses us as much as we use language.

Eventually, I became involved with somebody and I was fired.