Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?" — 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
Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities. — 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
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition. — 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
...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street.… — 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
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
We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people… — 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
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
Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common… — 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
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