Entrepreneur Quote by Pierre Omidyar

Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods, engage in…

— Sharan Burrow

Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A…

— Joan Robinson

As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty,…

— Koichiro Matsuura

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

— John H. McWhorter

The greatest charity is to enable the poor to earn a living.

— Vikrant Parsai

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

— Muhammad Yunus

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

— Sherrod Brown

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

— Jessica Jackley

“People like Larraine lived with so many compounded limitations that it was difficult to imagine the amount of good behavior or self-control that would…

— Matthew Desmond

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from…

— Pranab Mukherjee

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

— Nicholas Johnson

Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty.

— Jonathan Morduch