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