I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.

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

Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs.

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour with capital through a universal credit system, we'll then have other kinds of actors on the economic scene different from what the existing capitalist world would allow us to bring out.

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.