Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger, the real cause in most of the incidents of hunger is lack of ability to pay for food. If we are looking for ways to end hunger then we should be looking at ways to ensure a reasonable level of income for all

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

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

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

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

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

In the world of development, if one mixes the poor and the nonpoor in a program, the nonpoor will always drive out the poor, and the less poor will drive out the more poor, unless protective measures are instituted right at the beginning. In such cases, the nonpoor reap the benefits of all that is done in the name of the poor.