Charity Quotes by Muhammad Yunus

10 Charity quotes by Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus shares ten short reflections on charity, each line echoing his belief in social entrepreneurship, compassion, and the power of giving to transform lives.

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The able bodied poor don't want or need charity… All they need is financial capital.

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We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

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This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

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

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A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

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Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away…

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Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so…

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Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor…

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

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People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is…

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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…

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