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

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

Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.

The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.

I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them — which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.

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

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