Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.

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

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.

When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's second priority is the household. She wants to buy utensils, build a stronger roof, or find a bed for herself and her family. A man has an entirely different set of priorities. When a destitute father earns extra income, he focuses more attention on himself. Thus money entering a household through a woman brings more benefits to the family as a whole.