Muhammad Yunus Quotes

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. ...

The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfill...

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate ...

All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got ...

Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality...

Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is ...

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell ove...

Poverty is unnecessary.

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us trem...

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chai...

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists ...

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. ...

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to educatio...

When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her...

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world...

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our soc...

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supportin...

By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an...

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there...

I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, ra...

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it...

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relat...

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the car...

People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex phy...

UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women...

Changes are products of intensive efforts.

The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers' lic...

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance wh...

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They...

To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inc...

What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that br...

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changi...

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unn...

Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Deve...

I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue...

Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambi...

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they ar...

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid rec...

Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies...

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happ...

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the ci...

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abjec...

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity ...