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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.

Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
Banker
Economist
Entrepreneur
University Teacher
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Create
Company
Problem
Done
Life
Bangladesh
Immediately
Whenever
Poverty

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All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
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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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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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I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.
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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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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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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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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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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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...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.
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The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.
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There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.
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Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.
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If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity, full of capability, it's a wonderful creation, but many people never get a chance to explore that, never know that she or he has that.
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Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.
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The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.
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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.
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Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
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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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