There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

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

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick it up. In a worms eye view you don't have that advantage of looking at everything.

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.