Bad luck never lost a race.

Rich, arrogant, lucky, mollycoddled and stupid. That's always people's preconception.

The last thing I wanted in life was to be measured by what I had inherited, as opposed to what I had done.

If you have the good fortune of having money, it's almost an obligation to think creatively of ways of helping other people. But it shouldn't be in a haphazard way. You need a structure, a formula, so you don't give to everything.

I'm interested in helping people obtain the benefits enjoyed by the First World of efficient government. I want people in sub-Saharan Africa and other extremely impoverished parts of the world to acquire those same opportunities.

My father was never interested in anything outside England. He was an Anglophile who was interested in things that, in his mind, were quintessentially English.