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
A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The challenge I set before anyone who condemns private-sector business is this: If you are a socially conscious person, why don't you… — 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
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
What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common… — 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… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is… — 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
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
By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search… — 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
Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment… — 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
... When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a… — 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
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
