The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor - by making rich the richer and poor the poorer.

When you say vision you have a track that this is what I would like to say.

I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

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.