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

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

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

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

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

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

It just happens that there is more employment for puppeteers in preschool television than anywhere else.

With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.