Muhammad Yunus

...a culture that holds people back should and can be changed...

— Muhammad Yunus

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

— Muhammad Yunus

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

— Muhammad Yunus

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

— Muhammad Yunus

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

— Muhammad Yunus

My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.

— Muhammad Yunus

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

— Muhammad Yunus

Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

— Muhammad Yunus

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

— Muhammad Yunus

Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right,…

— Muhammad Yunus

If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be…

— Muhammad Yunus

In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry…

— Muhammad Yunus

Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or…

— Muhammad Yunus

We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what…

— Muhammad Yunus

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences,…

— Muhammad Yunus

“I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to…

— Muhammad Yunus

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease,…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

— Muhammad Yunus

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

“GDP does not and cannot tell the whole story. Activities that do not require money changing hands are not counted as part…

— Muhammad Yunus

Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human…

— Muhammad Yunus

Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search…

— Muhammad Yunus

“We are faced with famine in 1974 and people are dying of hunger. When people are dying of hunger, and you are…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

— Muhammad Yunus

We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more…

— Muhammad Yunus

We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact…

— Muhammad Yunus

“I profoundly believer, as Grammen's experience over twenty years has shown, that personal gains is not the only possible fuel for free…

— Muhammad Yunus

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem…

— Muhammad Yunus

“In the United States I saw how the market liberates the individual and allows people to be free to make personal choices.…

— Muhammad Yunus

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

— Muhammad Yunus

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

— Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in…

— Muhammad Yunus

I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems…

— Muhammad Yunus

I had only immediate things today, only today, not tomorrow. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. Today I can see myself…

— Muhammad Yunus

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

— Muhammad Yunus

Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

— Muhammad Yunus

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