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

We believe that business can be a tool for social good.

To truly prepare for the unexpected, you've got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens, you're close enough to squeeze through.

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

In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.

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 always kind of just went ahead and tried things.