Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on.

When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.