What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will,… — 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… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“I am not a capitalist in the simplistic left/right sense. But I do believe in the power of the global free-market economy… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of… — 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
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