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

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

Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

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