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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

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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.
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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.
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Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
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My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe that humans are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they did in the past because we turn our heads away from this issue.
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Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.
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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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If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.
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I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
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Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs.
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If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour with capital through a universal credit system, we'll then have other kinds of actors on the economic scene different from what the existing capitalist world would allow us to bring out.
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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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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.
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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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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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I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.
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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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