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Muhammad Yunus Quotes | Quotes said by Muhammad Yunus

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #1

    ...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.


  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #2

    ..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #3

    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 Quote #4

    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.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #5

    Changes are products of intensive efforts.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #6

    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 Quote #7

    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 Quote #8

    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.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #9

    Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional route where the rich will do the business and the poor will depend on private or public charity.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #10

    Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #11

    I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to take care of itself.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #12

    I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #13

    I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and with what little we had, they were able to provide an education for their children.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #14

    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.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #15

    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 Quote #16

    In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #17

    Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #18

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

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #19

    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 Quote #20

    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.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #21

    Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #22

    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 Quote #23

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

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #24

    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 Quote #25

    Poverty is unnecessary.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #26

    Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #27

    Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #28

    The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #29

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

  • Muhammad Yunus Quote #30

    The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any change in this structure will be devastating for the bank.

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