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
The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make… — 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'm on the faculty. I teach. And it's not easy for a poor person to enter the campus to track down the… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
