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Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.
Muhammad Yunus
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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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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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Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.
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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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Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
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