It can be a crazy idea to transform a borrower-owned bank into a government-owned bank. Politics will creep into it. Whichever party is in power, they will use it to their political advantage rather than focus on helping the poor. nbsp;...

The theory is that everyone benefits from specialization. But in practice we see big countries taking over the economies of the poor countries, big companies taking over the small companies, and big companies becoming more powerful than the governments themselves. nbs...

The government has to get active; Individuals have to get active; Civil society has to get active, so that poor people get the freedom to tackle all kinds of problems. ...

Leadership is about vision, if you see and think ahead, people follow you because you see more than they do. Others will believe in you because you have shown them other aspects of life they never believed possible. ...

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......

Power is not something you can store and someone else will find it. It rsquo;s not like that. It disappears. ...

Civilization has given us enormous successes going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilization that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. ...

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it s the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our......

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences. ...

Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights. ...