Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor.

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.

My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take loans and implement his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes possible. And second: that it will lead to a world where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world completely free from poverty.

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

...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.

I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.