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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.
- 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…
- This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.
- In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"
- We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions;…
- ...a culture that holds people back should and can be changed...
- What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?
- ...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street. When people hide…
- Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity.…
- If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being…
- Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs…
- All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
- Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.
- People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution to…
- People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.
- Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.
- I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the…
- We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks - I was telling people don't go to loan sharks - not trying to take advantage and make…
- We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are…
- What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy…
- My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have…
- But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those…
- Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more…
- I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
- I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was…
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