Muhammad Yunus Quotes

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Muhammad Yunus

Profession : Economist

Birth : June 28, 1940

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

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Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

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

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Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

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Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.

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Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.

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To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.

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Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

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While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

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Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.

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All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.

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I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

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Human beings have enormous resilience.

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The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.

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Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.

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Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

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Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

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Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

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I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

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Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

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