Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

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.

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

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.

Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.

Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates...and yourself.

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

I drink for the thirst to come.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.

The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept.

Quality tends to fan out like waves.

Great minds think alike.