We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The able bodied poor don't want or need charity… All they need is financial capital. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks - I was telling people don't go to loan sharks - not trying to take… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I will not spend the money for myself. I will rather spend it in special business on a no-profit-no-loss policy. We will… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
People need such a small amount of money to deal with their own daily life. Because wherever I went to school they… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“GDP does not and cannot tell the whole story. Activities that do not require money changing hands are not counted as part… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it...… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's second priority is… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit. Money is… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said:… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
