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.

The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully.

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

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

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.

I had only immediate things today, only today, not tomorrow. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. Today I can see myself like crystal.

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.