But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor - by making rich the richer and poor the poorer.

Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.

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

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

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?

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.