Muhammad Yunus quotes - page 3

Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture. (Muhammad Yunus)
All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on. View quote
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Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Business money is limitless. View quote
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Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level? View quote
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By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society. View quote
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I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money. View quote
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Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care. View quote
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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)
...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street. When people hide behind a culture, you know that's a dead culture. View quote
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Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities. View quote
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All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don't imagine it, it will never happen. View quote
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A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again. View quote
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I'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. View quote
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In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?" View quote
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This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty. (Muhammad Yunus)
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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