Muhammad Yunus Quotes
Top 55 wise famous quotes and sayings by Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.
When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.
Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.
If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.
I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.
Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.
This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.
Hings are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.
Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.
Poor people always pay back their loans. It's us, the creators of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.
We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.
We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children.
I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.
In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"
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 them!
An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.
We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.
I had only immediate things today, only today, not tomorrow. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. Today I can see myself like crystal.
Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.
The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.
Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself ...
They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.