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

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.

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.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

That gap between half sleep and half awakening has always been occupied by nostalgia.

The country is not in good condition.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

You know how sometimes when you're drunk you say something you sort of regret... to Ace Frehley?

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe.

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.

It's one of those magical acts that is so poly-sensorial and culturally enriching that as a designer one is naturally drawn to the cult of the object