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All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
Muhammad Yunus
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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
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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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Human beings have enormous resilience.
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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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If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.
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My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take loans and implement his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes possible. And second: that it will lead to a world where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world completely free from poverty.
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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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I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.
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By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.
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A culture that holds people back should and can be changed.
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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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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).
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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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...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.
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