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I tried to make sense of the Four Books,
until love arrived,
and it all became a single syllable. — Yunus Emre

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

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you. — Muhammad Yunus

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow ... — Yunus Emre

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty. — 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

If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come? — Yunus Emre

Changes are products of intensive efforts. — Muhammad Yunus

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator. — 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

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out. — Muhammad Yunus

Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker. — Muhammad Yunus

Poverty is unnecessary. — Muhammad Yunus

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. — Muhammad Yunus

When you say vision you have a track that this is what I would like to say. — 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

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

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities. — Muhammad Yunus

My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty. — Muhammad Yunus

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? — Muhammad Yunus

Human beings are much bigger than just making money. — Muhammad Yunus

Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus. — Yunus-bek Yevkurov

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

How will history judge us? Will our tales be sources of inspiration, or wells of caution? — Yunus D. Saleh

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

The earth shall be left to no one. — Yunus Emre

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one. — Yunus Emre

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

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together. — 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

A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again. — Muhammad Yunus

Human beings have enormous resilience. — 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

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like. — 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

The only place where poverty should be is in museums. — Muhammad Yunus

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries. — Yunus Emre

If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don't imagine it, it will never happen — Muhammad Yunus

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight. — Muhammad Yunus

Poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone. — 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

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden. — Yunus Emre

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business. — Muhammad Yunus

A heart makes a good home for the friend. — Yunus Emre

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?" — 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

We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children. — 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

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

Don't let me wander from Your love,
Don't let me leave Your door,
And if I lose myself,
Let me find myself with You. — Yunus Emre

If I told you about a land of love ... would you swallow it as a remedy? — Yunus Emre

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

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters. — 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

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. — 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

We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create. — Muhammad Yunus

I am the drop that contains the ocean — Yunus Emre

To love the world is to be afflicted. — Yunus Emre

I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver. — Muhammad Yunus