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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.
— Muhammad Yunus
When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.
— Muhammad Yunus
The crisis is the price for the capitalist system
— Muhammad Yunus
Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.
— Muhammad Yunus
All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
— Muhammad Yunus
If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.
— Muhammad Yunus
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.
— Muhammad Yunus
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
— Muhammad Yunus
Poverty is unnecessary.
— Muhammad Yunus
The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.
— Muhammad Yunus
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.
— Muhammad Yunus
People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.
— Muhammad Yunus
Changes are products of intensive efforts.
— Muhammad Yunus
Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.
— Muhammad Yunus
This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.
— Muhammad Yunus
Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.
— Muhammad Yunus
Human beings are much bigger than just making money.
— Muhammad Yunus
Hings are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.
— Muhammad Yunus
Business money is limitless.
— Muhammad Yunus
Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.
— Muhammad Yunus
Poor people always pay back their loans. It's us, the creators of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.
— Muhammad Yunus
The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.
— Muhammad Yunus
A culture that holds people back should and can be changed ...
— Muhammad Yunus
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.
— Muhammad Yunus
Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.
— Muhammad Yunus
My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.
— Muhammad Yunus
Human beings have enormous resilience.
— Muhammad Yunus
We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children.
— Muhammad Yunus
I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.
— Muhammad Yunus
In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"
— Muhammad Yunus
Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.
— Muhammad Yunus
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!
— Muhammad Yunus
A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.
— Muhammad Yunus
An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.
— Muhammad Yunus
If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don't imagine it, it will never happen
— Muhammad Yunus
The only place where poverty should be is in museums.
— Muhammad Yunus
We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.
— Muhammad Yunus
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.
— Muhammad Yunus
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
Poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.
— Muhammad Yunus
The able bodied poor don't want or need charity ... All they need is financial capital.
— Muhammad Yunus
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.
— Muhammad Yunus
Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
— Muhammad Yunus
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
— Muhammad Yunus
Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself ...
— Muhammad Yunus
They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
— Muhammad Yunus
Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.
— Muhammad Yunus