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Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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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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...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.
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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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..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.
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Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.
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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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The only place where poverty should be is in museums.
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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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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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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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