Business Quote by Muhammad Yunus

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

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

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

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

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

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit. Money is…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

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

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

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

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

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