When it comes to solving problems of poverty, impact investing can act as a catalyst, but it is not a silver bullet. Successful businesses serving the poor need more than investment capital. They also need infrastructure to enable effective distribution, strong regulatory systems, access to markets, technical assistance as they scale up, and more

We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity