Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Business is about problem-solving, but it does not always have to be about maximizing profit. When I went into business, my interest… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what… — 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
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
Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is… — 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
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and… — 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
Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them. — 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
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of… — 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
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