What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

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.

That's the way it is--you have a thought, a dream, an idea in your head . . . and you do nothing to make it happen. Then one day, boom, just like that, you get up and go.

After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work

Get out of your mind and become crazy about your future in a creative way!

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

One of an actor's fears is that your current project could be your last project.

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

I feel like my purpose on earth is to help other people and give good advice about some of the same things I have gone through.