Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

The challenge I set before anyone who condemns private-sector business is this: If you are a socially conscious person, why don't you run your business in a way that will help achieve social objectives?

All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.

Human beings have enormous resilience.

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