I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

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

People need such a small amount of money to deal with their own daily life. Because wherever I went to school they taught me about millions of dollars. I dealt with billions of dollars in national plans and investment plans and so on. Not this tiny money, $27 for 42 people.