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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

Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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The challenge I set before anyone who condemns private-sector business is this: If you are a socially conscious person, why don't you run your business in a way that will help achieve social objectives?
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The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.
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Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself.
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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 trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I thought I did that. I prepared myself for that kind of road. But then I realized that I had not learned enough to solve the problem of poverty. So I distanced myself from the things that I learned and tried to learn anew about people.
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Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.
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All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
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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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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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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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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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An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.
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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 have enormous resilience.
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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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Poverty is unnecessary.
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If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.
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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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I'm finding that knocking at their mindsets is hard work. A simple knock will not make it crawl. I was trying to push it. I was trying to find a bird's eye view where I could find a big solution. So this is what I was trying.
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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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