Everybody Quote by Muhammad Yunus Download Open image “The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.” — Muhammad Yunus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Everybody Help Helping Microfinance Moment Moments Say Time Want Wants
Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge, posing an untapped opportunity to create markets, bring people in from the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty. — Jonathan Morduch Copy Share Image
What attracted me towards microfinance is it's a very sustainable business, which has an impact on people's lives yet it can be very profitable. — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Microfinance initiatives are very high-touch models. The loan officer meets with local groups of borrowers every week, they share tips and techniques. There's a… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
A well-functioning microfinance bank can actually be a profitable business as well. So it became a perfect proof point that, through business, you can… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks - I was telling people don't go to loan sharks - not trying to take advantage and… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I've led programs that have helped thousands of individuals, small businesses, veterans, the disabled, farmers get low-interest loans to prosper. — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit. Money is power. I have been arguing that credit should be accepted as a human right. If we can come up with a system which allows everybody access to credit while ensuring excellent repayment - I can give… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share
What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said:… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection. — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
I think everybody in the future has stopped talking to each other and we all just use emojis. — Scarlett Moffatt Copy Share Image
If you're in a meeting and a man talks loudly over you, rather than copying that behaviour and normalising it, what you could do… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else. — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic Copy Share Image
You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's happy. I am, at 74. Some people like doing it, but I never was much for that, anyway. It's a lot of work. So the only thing I miss about all of it is the camaraderie… — Phil Everly Copy Share
My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings. — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
But I didnt feel like an invalid even for a second. I knew that I could never be the player that I was, so… — Arunima Sinha Copy Share Image
Medium is like the Instagram of the corporate world. It's the layer that we want everybody to see, but not actually how it is.… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
I think, whenever you're in the public eye, you're never going to be loved by everybody. — Amy Jackson Copy Share Image
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
