Economist Quote by Muhammad Yunus

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

— Matthew Desmond

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just…

— Benjamin Carson

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there…

— Andrew Carnegie

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

— Muhammad Yunus

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

— Walter Inglis Anderson

Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I thought the…

— Matthew Desmond

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a…

— Justin Bieber

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and…

— Douglass North

I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of…

— Jonathan Ames

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know…

— Harrison Ford

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting…

— Peter Gallagher