The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.

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.

Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter...a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen?

I'm telling you that the cure is the disease. The main source of the illness in this world is the doctor's own illness

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

Tax is a big expense. And I wouldn't mind paying taxes a lot less if our politicians knew how to spend the money, but they don't. They waste the money.

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.