I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.

A culture that holds people back should and can be changed.

All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on.

If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national defense and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a "Grameenized private sector", a social-consciousness-driven private sector, take over their other functions.

...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.

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!