Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.

There are 60 million generators in Nigeria. The generator owners and distributors have a strong incentive to not encourage the distribution of solar and other alternative energies, even though it's better for the country, it's better for people. As a world, we've got to get more serious about confronting those obstacles. This knows no culture, no race, no ethnicity.

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

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.