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World Quotes by Muhammad Yunus
- My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.
- We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible. Let's…
- We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but…
- In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and…
- Business is about problem-solving, but it does not always have to be about maximizing profit. When I went into business, my interest was to figure…
- Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
- What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for…
- Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more…
- There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go…
- Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have…
- In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do…
- Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We…
- The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the…
- The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal…
- I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the…
- If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but…
- The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around…
- I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing…
- We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create.
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- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
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