People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live

Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

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.

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

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.