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title: "5 Capitalist Quotes By Muhammad Yunus"
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> [The crisis is the price for the capitalist system](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/the-crisis-is-the-price-for-the-capitalist-system/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

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> [We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/we-have-designed-a-capitalist-system-wrong-we-assume-human-beings-are/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

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> [If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/if-the-helplessness-and-isolation-of-labour-who-have-nothing-to-sell/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/312/muhammad-yunus-2158_actors_if-the-helplessness-and-isolation-of-lab_1417381.jpg)

> [The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/the-profit-orientation-is-only-one-orientation-of-a-person-the-same/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

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> [“I am not a capitalist in the simplistic left/right sense. But I do believe in the power of the global free-market economy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/i-am-not-a-capitalist-in-the-simplistic-left-right-sense-but-i-do/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

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## Other authors on Capitalist

## More by Muhammad Yunus

> [What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/what-is-entrepreneurship-after-all-bigness-is-not-the-issue-poor/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/here-we-were-talking-about-economic-development-about-investing/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

> [All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/all-human-beings-are-very-creative-full-of-potential-full-of-energy/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

> [Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/credit-markets-were-originally-created-to-serve-human-needs-to/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

> [We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/we-have-a-list-of-human-rights-right-to-food-right-to-shelter-right/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

> [If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit. Money is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/if-we-are-looking-for-one-single-action-which-will-enable-the-poor-to/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

> [What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/what-we-are-trying-to-do-is-to-create-a-social-business-in-bangladesh/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

> [There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/there-is-the-expression-of-selfishness-and-there-is-the-expression-of/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

> [I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/i-did-something-that-challenged-the-banking-world-conventional-banks/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

> [Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/poverty-is-an-artificial-external-imposition-on-a-human-being-it-is/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

> [I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/i-made-a-list-of-people-who-needed-just-a-little-bit-of-money-and/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/i-dismiss-personal-profit-and-focus-exclusively-on-people-and-planet/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

> [I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/i-have-come-to-believe-deeply-and-firmly-that-we-can-create-a-poverty/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

> [The crisis is the price for the capitalist system](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/the-crisis-is-the-price-for-the-capitalist-system/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

> [I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/i-was-teaching-in-one-of-the-universities-while-the-country-was/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

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