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

#Morning #Jobs #People
“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Frustration #Rights #Poverty
“One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Grandchildren #Museums #One Day
“Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Business #Museums #Luxury
“People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Country #Stupid #People
“Iâ€™m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Fun #People #Entrepreneur
“When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's second priority is the household. She wants to buy utensils, build a stronger roof, or find a bed for herself and her family. A man has an entirely different set of priorities. When a destitute father earns extra income, he focuses more attention on himself. Thus money entering a household through a woman brings more benefits to the family as a whole.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Mother #Dream #Children
“In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#People #Poverty #Credit
“Poverty is unnecessary.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Poverty #Unnecessary #Finance
“If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity full of capability, is a wonderful creation. But many people never get a chance to explore that, never, no that she nor he has that”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#People #Use #Want
“The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Oneness #Diversity #Together
“This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Inspiration #People #Charity
“The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Alive #Facts #Poor
“Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Creativity #Keys #Problem
“Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Giving Up #Limits
“If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Real #Giving #People
“To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only the soil-base you provided was inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Flower #Perfect #People
“Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Gambling #People #Population
“Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Museums #Poverty #Doe
“I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Believe #People #World
“All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding ourselves. Thatâ€™s where human history began . . . As civilization came we suppressed it. We became labor because they stamped us, â€˜You are labor.â€™ We forgot that we are entrepreneurs.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Self #Civilization #Entrepreneur
“I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Country #Teaching #People
“The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Want #Helping #Moments
“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

#Mean #Quality #Care
“People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution to poverty. Poverty is the creation of opportunities like everybody else has, not the poor people, so bring them to the poor people, so that they can change their lives.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Opportunity #People #Support
“My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Change #Faith #Eye
“Human beings are much bigger than just making money.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Making Money #Bigger #Humans
“Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Goodbye #Moon #Technology
“I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Conflict #Sometimes #Absence
“There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'”
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Expression #Selfishness #World

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