...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

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

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.

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

If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is intangible and yet being tackled by all the possible military means we can muster. And all the lofty declarations by world leaders about combatting poverty that were lauded by the General Assembly turned out to be damp squibs.