...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have… — 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
The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I… — 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… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who… — 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
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
I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I… — 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
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
Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers' licenses are recognized. But not people. People… — 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… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
