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

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues.

We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.

We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create.

Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.