All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it...… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads… — 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
