I think every stock in the world is going to end up being a security token.

Two-thirds of the world's population is unbanked or underbanked. Imagine if you had all your bank accounts shut down today, if you had all your credit cards shut off today, Paypal, Venmo, etc. What would life be like? And that's a problem that most of the world faces if you're in Latin America, Africa or South East Asia.

I've been very blessed in my life.

I did commit to giving my first billion away.

I am excited to join the Bancor advisory board and provide guidance and insight to such an innovative team and protocol.

A lot of what I see in blockchain promises to get us as an industry from A to Z. As an investor and entrepreneur, I am constantly on the lookout for how we get from A to B.

Puerto Ricans are so well educated, they're so capable, they're so competent, but due to a lack of opportunity, when you graduate from college, you leave. Puerto Rico's number one export is human beings; Puerto Ricans!

I obviously have been very involved in creating a number of tokens going all the way back to Mastercoin.

I care a great deal about what happens to Bitcoin.

I care a great deal about humanity! I care. I really care.

Has the Internet changed our lives? Have mobile phones changed our lives? The blockchain is something that is that transformative.

No one will use the new Internet if it's slow, costs money and doesn't scale.

The earliest adopters at scale of crypto were gamers.

The Internet didn't become usable until Netscape because that gave the average person a user interface that was intuitive, simple, friendly - this made it accessible.

I've been an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the cryptocurrency industry for a long time, working with numerous projects.

From an architecture perspective, Mt. Gox is not an isolated incident. We've had exchanges continually hacked after Mt. Gox. This has been an ongoing problem that has continued to plague our industry.

I'm going to keep innovating.

I live life like it's a role-playing game.

I continually reinvent myself. It keeps things interesting.

I don't need to amass a ton of wealth for myself.

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone.

I'm normally running three to 10 meetings at a time. I just pile them all up. I have no schedule and everybody just kind of meets at the same time. It sometimes makes people who are really important in their minds very uncomfortable because they're used to getting an automatic three hours alone.

Once you reinvent yourself three, four, five times, you eventually just realize you can do this infinitely, with whatever time you have.

Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip - blockchain and crypto is the fourth.

Anyone who knows me knows I'm an open book.

I'm a lover of fairs and corn dogs.

I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.

I'm a big outdoorsman... I'm a big hunter. Avid fisherman. Hiker. Climber. Scuba diver. Skier. Love the outdoors.

I don't have a Rolls. I don't have a jet. That's not me.

I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children.

I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.

Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.

I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.

Your average person in Illinois doesn't really even know what workers' comp is. The average person doesn't know really what's going on in the pension system. They know their taxes are too high; they know we've got a deficit. But getting that message out and helping the people of Illinois really understand what's going on, that's hard.

Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.

If yelling and threatening, intimidating and chanting solved problems, Illinois wouldn't have any problems. We're good at that stuff.

It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.

We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more economic freedom into the state. And I believe that very passionately.

I'm not anti-union.

I am going to try to rip the economic guts out of Indiana. But we're going to do it methodically and aggressively.

I am one of the baddest enemies anybody can have.

State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government - broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.

I am a gun owner and a hunter and a gun rights supporter.

The critical thing is that we have to reduce the tax burden.

Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.

I want to transform state government. What it takes is a strong CEO type... a leader who can drive things.

Illinois has every reason to succeed. We have the hardest-working people in America, the best infrastructure in America, and the best location of any state.