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...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.

Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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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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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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..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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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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An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.
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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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The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
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Poverty is unnecessary.
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They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the pledge should be: 'I'm not a job seeker I'm a job giver.' Prepare yourself to be a job giver.
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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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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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Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.
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