Muhammad Yunus

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were…

— Muhammad Yunus

It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle,…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is…

— Muhammad Yunus

We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children.

— Muhammad Yunus

The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives…

— Muhammad Yunus

I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their…

— Muhammad Yunus

“I try to kind of enlightened my frustration and agony by coming to the conclusion that I may not be useful as…

— Muhammad Yunus

If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

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

People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor…

— Muhammad Yunus

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six…

— Muhammad Yunus

Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt,…

— Muhammad Yunus

It's very difficult when you have learned something a certain way. Not only your mind absorbs it; your eyes also are trained…

— Muhammad Yunus

I believe terrorism cannot be won over by military action. Terrorism must be condemned in the strongest language. We must stand solidly…

— Muhammad Yunus

I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I…

— Muhammad Yunus

I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and…

— Muhammad Yunus

Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to…

— Muhammad Yunus

We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment…

— Muhammad Yunus

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So…

— Muhammad Yunus

I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing…

— Muhammad Yunus

All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it...…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common…

— Muhammad Yunus

I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the…

— Muhammad Yunus

Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment…

— Muhammad Yunus

What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on.…

— Muhammad Yunus

If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own…

— Muhammad Yunus

The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract…

— Muhammad Yunus

In the world of development, if one mixes the poor and the nonpoor in a program, the nonpoor will always drive out…

— Muhammad Yunus

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role…

— Muhammad Yunus