When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem… — 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
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
“I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key… — 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
..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to… — 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 avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem… — 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
