What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.

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

Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish.

I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.

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