What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way to feel more freer, more dignified and more beautiful?

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.

One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.

Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.