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

Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Poverty is unnecessary.
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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.
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Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.
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