I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out...

Grameen Bank was not a thought-out plan, it was a spur-of-the-moment thing, a reaction to a moment of frustration and extreme devastation, ...

The poor taught me an entirely new economics. ...

Whenever I needed a rule or a procedure in our work, I just looked at the conventional banks to see what they do in a similar situation. nbsp; Once I learned what they did, I just did the opposite. nbsp; That s how I got our rules. ...

They said you cannot lend money to the poor and we have a bank and no penny missing. ...

Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. ...

Leaders don rsquo;t have time for the future because they rsquo;re too busy with the present. ...

Savar tragedy is a symbol of our failure as a nation. The crack in Rana Plaza that caused the collapse of the building has only shown us that if we don rsquo;t face up to the cracks in our state systems, that we as a nation will get......

What is a real leader? nbsp;A leader enjoys the company of other people and has an ability to inspire them. It rsquo;s not about power and giving orders. You may not carry a title or hold a position, but people will admire you for what you say, what......

I believe putting resources into improving the lives of poor people is a better strategy than spending it on guns. ...