Muhammad Yunus Quotes - Page 2

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• My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Future, Vision, World

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• We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Business, Believe, People

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• When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Responsibility, Worry, Use

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• All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Entrepreneur, Chance, Born

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• 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

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

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• 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

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

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• When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base. With women participating in building this economic base, it becomes the foundation for better social and economic future.

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  Strong, Foundation, Tiny Things

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• Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Meaningful, Creativity, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Yunus from Oct 11, 2012

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• Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

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  Thinking, People, Lazy

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• Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Creativity, People, Needs

  "Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism". Book by Muhammad Yunus, 2007.

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• Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

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  Fun, World, Making Money

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• Human beings have enormous resilience.

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  Resilience, Enormous, Humans

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• If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university.

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  Greatness, Would Be, Helping

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• Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will, is the essence of capitalism.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Essence, Free Will, Profit

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.

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  Ideas, People, Different

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• 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

  Two, Vision, Different

  "Stephen Covey Interviews Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus". Interview with Stephen Covey, socialbusinesspedia.com. November 1, 2016.

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

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  Inspiring, Jobs, Thinking

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• I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, Names, People

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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

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  Charity, Poverty, Initiative

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor”, p.283, Penguin Books India

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• What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues.

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  Believe, Years, Issues

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• In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick it up. In a worms eye view you don't have that advantage of looking at everything.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Eye, Views, Bird

  "Stephen Covey Interviews Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus". Interview with Stephen Covey, socialbusinesspedia.com. November 1, 2016.

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• 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.

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  Real, People, Giving

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Poverty, Life Is

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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

  Calling, Poverty, Kind

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2015

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• 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.

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  Flower, People, Perfect

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.54, PublicAffairs

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