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.

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.

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

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!