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The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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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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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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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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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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An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.
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Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish.
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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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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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Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.
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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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Human beings are much bigger than just making money.
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Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.
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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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Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
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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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If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen
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Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.
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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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...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.
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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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