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

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

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.

We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children.

In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick it up. In a worms eye view you don't have that advantage of looking at everything.

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.