Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

Business is about problem-solving, but it does not always have to be about maximizing profit. When I went into business, my interest was to figure out how to solve problems I see in front of me. That's why I looked at the poverty issue. I got involved in lots of things to address it, and one of them was money lending with loans and credits and savings accounts, and in the process I created Grameen Bank. So you can also have social objectives. Ask yourself these questions: Who are you? What kind of world do you want?

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.