Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself.

I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.