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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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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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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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All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
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Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.
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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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Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
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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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I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.
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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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