Stephan Schmidheiny

“I am driven by an image of a world creating unprecedented amounts of capital and unprecedented amounts of poor people at the same time. For capitalism to help create sustainable forms of human progress, we need billions more capitalists. For the market to be the tool for sustainable development I am convinced it can be, we need to build a market more replete with opportunities for all.“

Stephan Schmidheiny, 2002
Speech at the occasion of the signing of an agreement between the International Finance Corporation and Fundes,
Washington DC, USA