If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen — 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
So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is… — 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
What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour… — 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
Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
In the world of development, if one mixes the poor and the nonpoor in a program, the nonpoor will always drive out… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do. — 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
I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems… — 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
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