The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
... Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to… — 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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
When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's second priority is… — 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
![“I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see poverty is in the museum. When school children will be on a tour of the poverty museum, they will be horrified to see the misery and indignity of human beings. They…” quote by Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6b7/muhammad-yunus-2158_believe_i-strongly-believe-that-we-can-create-a_2616379.jpg)
