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.'

My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take loans and implement his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes possible. And second: that it will lead to a world where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world completely free from poverty.

If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

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

When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.

I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.