In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?" — 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
I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it… — 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 have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight. — 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
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
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
We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them… — 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
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
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
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
I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing… — 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
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease,… — 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
The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others,… — 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
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
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
...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 Copy Share Image
Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human… — 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
