We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.

We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.

By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.