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

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

On the one hand, I loved being a banker. I loved how numbers could tell a story and how you can invest in ideas and see them translate into products and services and create jobs. What I didn't like, particularly where I was working in Brazil during the debt crisis of the early '80s, was how the poor were excluded from the banking system. I made the decision to try and experiment with whether we could use the tools of banking to extend the benefits of the economy to the poor.

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

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.

A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.