Muhammad Yunus Quotes
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If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all…
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Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us…
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My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.
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Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.
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My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe…
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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
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We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will…
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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 to this conclusion…
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This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.
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My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take…
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The only place where poverty should be is in museums.
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We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.
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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…
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If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit
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Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other…
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In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"
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We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions;…
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... Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself ...
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... When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base.…
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Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations,…
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