Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.

I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.

Business money is limitless.

...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street. When people hide behind a culture, you know that's a dead culture.

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

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!

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?