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Believe Quotes by Muhammad Yunus

10 Believe quotes by Muhammad Yunus

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If you’re looking for a brief spark of optimism, this set of ten statements from Muhammad Yunus offers a concise glimpse into his hopeful outlook. Each line reflects his belief in human potential and the power of small actions to create lasting change.

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I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and…

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UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning…

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We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not…

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My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads…

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I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national…

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

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

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What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of…

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I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to… In that kind of world, [the] only place…

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

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There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said:…

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I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs,…

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

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I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names.…

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I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I…

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