Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.

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.

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.

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.

Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.