Muhammad Yunus Quotes

Economist Born: June 28, 1940

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income. Muhammad Yunus

Creativity, Experience, Day, People

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness. Muhammad Yunus

Happiness, Great, Money, Happy, People

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen. Muhammad Yunus

Life, Mind, Society, Poverty, You, Free

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.' Muhammad Yunus

Business, World, Create, I Can, Kind, Go

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see. Muhammad Yunus

Change, Eyes, Challenge, People, Mindset

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy. Muhammad Yunus

Money, People, Me, Bank, Poor, Because

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. Muhammad Yunus

Education, World, Key, Credit, Play, Who

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. Muhammad Yunus

Technology, Environmental, Moon, Goodbye

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters. Muhammad Yunus

Technology, Important, Matters, While

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. Muhammad Yunus

Health, Smart, Tough, World, Care, New

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. Muhammad Yunus

History, Great, Time, World, Poverty

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame. Muhammad Yunus

Today, Finance, People, World, Financial

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person's existence. Muhammad Yunus

People, Me, Economics, Meaning, Person

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. Muhammad Yunus

Positive, Business, Culture, Motivation

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. Muhammad Yunus

Education, Quality, Me, Reach, Village

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. Muhammad Yunus

You, Differences, America, Africa, Go

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business. Muhammad Yunus

Business, Today, Money, Name, Make

What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change. Muhammad Yunus

Change, Growth, Business, World, Search

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that. Muhammad Yunus

Education, Health, Food, People, Try

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. Muhammad Yunus

Peace, Environmental, Democracy, Way

Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all. Muhammad Yunus

Health, Quality, Tools, Care, Only

Human beings have enormous resilience. Muhammad Yunus

Resilience, Human, Human Beings, Beings

Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional route where the rich will do the business and the poor will depend on private or public charity. Muhammad Yunus

Good, Business, People, Charity, Chance

All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity. Muhammad Yunus

Chance, Born, She, Never, Human, Got

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. Muhammad Yunus

Money, People, Poor, Circumstances, Like

Human beings are much bigger than just making money. Muhammad Yunus

Money, Making Money, Human, Bigger, Just

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