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.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

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.

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

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

Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.