Entrepreneur Quotes by Muhammad Yunus

10 Entrepreneur quotes by Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus treats entrepreneurship as a tool for social change. This concise collection shows his conviction that business can lift communities, offering a fresh lens for purpose‑driven founders.

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People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

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All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that…

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All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

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I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is…

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The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role…

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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…

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All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding…

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By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them…

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In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor…

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What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy…

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We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which…

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If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit. Money is…

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What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good,…

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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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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 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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