People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

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.

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.

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

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

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

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.