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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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If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity, full of capability, it's a wonderful creation, but many people never get a chance to explore that, never know that she or he has that.
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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 are much bigger than just making money.
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I had only immediate things today, only today, not tomorrow. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. Today I can see myself like crystal.
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I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.
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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
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The only place where poverty should be is in museums.
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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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Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.
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People need such a small amount of money to deal with their own daily life. Because wherever I went to school they taught me about millions of dollars. I dealt with billions of dollars in national plans and investment plans and so on. Not this tiny money, $27 for 42 people.
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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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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 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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What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.
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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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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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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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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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Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
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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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