A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks - I was telling people don't go to loan sharks - not trying to take advantage and make money for myself. I would be a junior loan shark if I did ... It is not a panacea.

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.

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

I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.