Poverty is unnecessary.

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

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

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!

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.