Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

The time for change is now.

Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.

Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed.

I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.

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