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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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We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.
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...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.
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Human beings are much bigger than just making money.
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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.
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My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take loans and implement his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes possible. And second: that it will lead to a world where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world completely free from poverty.
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The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
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If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university.
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