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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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I had only immediate things today, only today, not tomorrow. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. Today I can see myself like crystal.
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I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
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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 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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The challenge I set before anyone who condemns private-sector business is this: If you are a socially conscious person, why don't you run your business in a way that will help achieve social objectives?
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Poverty is unnecessary.
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Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.
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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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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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This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.
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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.
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Human beings are much bigger than just making money.
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