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Muhammad Yunus

(1940) Banker

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Muhammad Yunus is a banker, best known for Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty.

Quick Facts About Muhammad Yunus

Born: June 28, 1940
Profession: Banker
Notable works: Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty

About Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and statesman. Yunus pioneered the modern concept of microcredit and microfinance, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. He is the founder of Grameen Bank and the first Bangladeshi to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Following the July Uprising, he was appointed as the 5th chief adviser of Bangladesh, the head of the interim government, serving from 2024 to 2026.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Muhammad Yunus

What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy…

Business

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Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions…

Billions

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All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it...…

Capacity

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Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or…

Credit

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We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such…

Accepted

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If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit.…

Accepted

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What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common…

Affordable

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There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part.…

Business

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I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people…

Banking

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Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is…

Artificial

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I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were…

Amount

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I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to…

About

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I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came…

Believe

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The crisis is the price for the capitalist system

Capitalist

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I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger,…

Country

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When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem…

Appease

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The challenge I set before anyone who condemns private-sector business is this: If you are a socially conscious person, why don't you…

Achieve

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I had only immediate things today, only today, not tomorrow. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. Today I can see myself…

Crystals

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In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry…

Awakening

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It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle,…

Difficult

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“I try to kind of enlightened my frustration and agony by coming to the conclusion that I may not be useful as…

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While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

Important

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I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have…

Any

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Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust…

Absence

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Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human…

Aids

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Muhammad Yunus by topic

Poverty (68) People (55) Poor (46) Humans (33) Business (32) Money (30) World (29) Poor people (19) Social (18) Ifs (18) Should (16) Kind (15) Human beings (15) Economic (15) Way (14)