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Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
Muhammad Yunus
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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells a hot dog on the street is as much an entrepreneur as anyone else. Getting his $50 loan to start could be as difficult as finding $50 million for someone else. All people are entrepreneurs.
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The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.
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There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.
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Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.
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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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Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world.
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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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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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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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If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university.
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All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
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Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.
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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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Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.
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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
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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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I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.
Muhammad Yunus
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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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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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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