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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.

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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I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on selflessness that is in all of us. I am calling it social 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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Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.
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Human beings are much bigger than just making money.
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Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
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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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I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves the institutions and concepts that make up that system the policies that we pursue.
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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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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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..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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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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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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