Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker. — 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
A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the… — 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
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
UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust… — 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.… — 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 should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator. — 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
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
I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national… — 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
