If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit. Money is power. I have been arguing that credit should be accepted as a human right. If we can come up with a system which allows everybody access to credit while ensuring excellent repayment - I can give you a guarantee that poverty will not last long.

Business money is limitless.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.

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?

Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself.

Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.