Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

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.

There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations.

In the Middle Ages, bloodletting was often performed by barbers, which is why the traditional barber’s pole—like the bloody towels that once hung outside barber shops—is colored red and white.

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Some things are impossible.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

SHUCHU RYOKU - Focus all your energy to one point.

I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.