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Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).

Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is poverty is not caused by poor ppl. Poverty is caused by the system. Poverty is caused by the policies that we pursue.
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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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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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Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
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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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Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.
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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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What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.
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A culture that holds people back should and can be changed.
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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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They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the pledge should be: 'I'm not a job seeker I'm a job giver.' Prepare yourself to be a job giver.
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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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The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.
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All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
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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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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
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Human beings have enormous resilience.
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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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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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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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