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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.

Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.
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I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on selflessness that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.
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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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People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution to poverty. Poverty is the creation of opportunities like everybody else has, not the poor people, so bring them to the poor people, so that they can change their lives.
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What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.
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Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.
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We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.
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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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The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.
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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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To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.
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