When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for… - Muhammad Yunus

Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.

Making money from business is happiness, but making other people happy is super happiness.

People like Sufiya were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institutions in the country did not help them widen their economic base.

Like any other idea, that of social business is subject to being misused and perverted. A few powerful people will look for ways to distort the concept and twist it for their own benefit — just as some misguided people have applied the term “microcredit” to describe companies that are really just loan sharks in disguise. Well-intentioned people will need to be on guard against those who would abuse the good name of social business.