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Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.
Muhammad Yunus
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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
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Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.
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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
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Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
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I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I thought I did that. I prepared myself for that kind of road. But then I realized that I had not learned enough to solve the problem of poverty. So I distanced myself from the things that I learned and tried to learn anew about people.
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Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.
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