There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part.… — 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… — 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
In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained… — 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
Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world… — 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
We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour… — 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
In the world of development, if one mixes the poor and the nonpoor in a program, the nonpoor will always drive out… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role… — 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 believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do. — 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
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
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
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
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
