Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

Don't let people who you may respect and who you believe know what they're talking about, don't let them tell you it can't be done because often they will tell you it can't be done, and it's just because they don't have the courage to try.

I want people to be entrepreneurs, but I want them to do it for the right reasons, because they think they can change the world, because they think they have got something of value to give to the world. Not because they think they can make a lot of money.

I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology

Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.

We ought to be looking at business as a force for good.

I just kind of had this naive approach to - well, gee, you know, why not. I’ll just go ahead and do it.