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- My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.
- Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.
- 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…
- One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
- 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…
- 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…
- This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.
- 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…
- The only place where poverty should be is in museums.
- We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.
- 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…
- If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit
- 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…
- 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;…
- ... Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself ...
- ... When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base.…
- 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,…
- ...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…
- I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am…
- 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.…
- I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.
- I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.
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