All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university.

In the world of development, if one mixes the poor and the nonpoor in a program, the nonpoor will always drive out the poor, and the less poor will drive out the more poor, unless protective measures are instituted right at the beginning. In such cases, the nonpoor reap the benefits of all that is done in the name of the poor.

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

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