Poverty Quotes by Muhammad Yunus

Poverty is unnecessary.

— Muhammad Yunus

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

— Muhammad Yunus

My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.

— Muhammad Yunus

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

— Muhammad Yunus

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

— Muhammad Yunus

...a culture that holds people back should and can be changed...

— Muhammad Yunus

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

— Muhammad Yunus

I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems…

— Muhammad Yunus

Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

— Muhammad Yunus

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

— Muhammad Yunus

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

The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

— Muhammad Yunus

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

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have…

— Muhammad Yunus

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human…

— Muhammad Yunus

...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street.…

— Muhammad Yunus

Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger,…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions,…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact…

— Muhammad Yunus

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem…

— Muhammad Yunus

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit.…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any…

— Muhammad Yunus

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

— Muhammad Yunus

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

— Muhammad Yunus

Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right,…

— Muhammad Yunus

I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it…

— Muhammad Yunus

I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is…

— Muhammad Yunus

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

— Muhammad Yunus

“I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the…

— Muhammad Yunus

When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple…

— Muhammad Yunus