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

I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.

Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.