Muhammad Yunus quotes - page 4

I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick. (Muhammad Yunus)
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. View quote
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My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty. View quote
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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. View quote
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Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. View quote
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The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have. View quote
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But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities. View quote
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The crisis is the price for the capitalist system. View quote
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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)
Changes are products of intensive efforts. View quote
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What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic. View quote
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Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away. View quote
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Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor. View quote
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If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do. View quote
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If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit. View quote
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When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years. View quote
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The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital. View quote
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What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change. View quote
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...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone. (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. View quote
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The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way. View quote
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What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? View quote
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Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition. View quote
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