What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?
We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.
Africans didn’t want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.
I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.
The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.
There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.
When systems are broken, it’s an opportunity for invention and innovation.
May each of you live lives of immersion. They won’t necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.
Nothing important happens in life without a cost.
Being poor doesn’t mean being ordinary.
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.
The time for change is now.
Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.
What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.
All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.
Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.
Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.