I enjoy my work. Every day is a holiday.

I grew up in Thailand and then I went to Australia when I was 12. While in Australia, I learned that you have to be honest—that you don’t have to be caught as a cheat to be a cheater.

I worked as an economist soon after I returned to Thailand from university for about seven years. That’s when I traveled around the countryside and saw a lot of things that need to be addressed, such as the population issue and poverty.

When you have too many children and not enough to eat, what kind of happiness can you have? We need to provide a balance. That’s an important element.

Corruption seems to be a disease among most Thai politicians and those who support politics.

I’d like to help less fortunate people have a better chance at life through better education and to produce young people who are aware of honesty and integrity.

We have a school in Buri Ram sponsored by business and the people that go there are poor. It’s free education but it’s very high quality.

Most of the world’s education systems, including Thailand’s, are too heavily skewed towards how to add and subtract, and how to write and spell properly, with little emphasis on creativity. This school has a lot of emphasis on creativity. We want these students to be a generation that concentrates on tomorrow, not yesterday.

Everything that the poor need is a big challenge. But mountains are there to be climbed, not complained about.

One thing I want to get started is a program that goes to secondary schools to get kids interested in doing public good. That way, by the time they are in university level, it becomes second nature to them.

I would love to turn Don Muang airport into low income housing and education center—it’s close to Bangkok and is owned by the government.

The best thing that Bangkok has ever seen is the SkyTrain and underground rail. It’s a great democratization of Bangkok because no matter how many jewels you wear, you‘re just the same on there. It’s great to see people of all nationalities and all economic levels sharing it.

We need to have more things where we can experience equality and see how good it is. Each time you are on one of these trains, enjoy it because it’s very democratic.

You can judge people by their toilets. If you want to check how good or bad a person is, go to the bathroom. Don’t look at their bank account; just go to the toilet. Then you’ll see.

I propose that all department stores be taxed—for every 10 square meters there must be a toilet. Have a toilet tax. Use that money to run toilets.

No one is a hero to me. There are people I admire and respect, but that’s just not the way I look at the world. There are many, many good people around, and not all of them are famous and not all of them are rich.