I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.

When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base. With women participating in building this economic base, it becomes the foundation for better social and economic future.

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!

UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.

The crisis is the price for the capitalist system