Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.

My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take loans and implement his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes possible. And second: that it will lead to a world where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world completely free from poverty.

If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen

Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.