When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital. — 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
