35 Muhammad Yunus Quotes for You to Enjoy

Muhammad Yunus

Economist

Born: Jun 28, 1940

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Related authors: Adam Smith Alan Greenspan E. F. Schumacher John Kenneth Galbraith John Maynard Keynes Milton Friedman Paul A. Volcker Thomas Sowell

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

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

Happiness Great Happy People Money Other Making Making Money Incentive

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 Economic Crisis You Overcome Mind Will Free Poverty Before Society Our Crisis Economic Write Never Envision Make Fiction Happen Happened Social Them Flaws Social Life Things Need Imagine

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. Muhammad Yunus

Environmental Change Creativity Problems Challenge Poverty Power Extraordinary Tremendous Our Unlimited Intractable Degradation Unprecedented Given Potential Take Combined Like Unemployment Disease Human Capabilities Translate Meaningful Us Technological

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

Unleash Some Born Entrepreneurs Never He He Or She Knew She Got Get Human Human Beings Capacity Beings Chance

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

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What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic. Muhammad Yunus

Good Food Business People Healthy Restaurants Joint Prices Venture Trying Affordable Bangladesh Common Common People Unhealthy Social Create

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail. Muhammad Yunus

Prevail Women Long Power Live Bank Poor

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 World Smart Care Made Seen Tough Incubator More Cheap Developing Developing World Developments New Major Instruments Health Care Without Scientific Built Affordable Current Just Poor Requiring Application Technologies

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

Money Making Making Money Than Human Just Human Beings Bigger Much Beings

Human beings have enormous resilience. Muhammad Yunus

Enormous Human Human Beings Beings Resilience

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots. Muhammad Yunus

Capitalism Human Being World Money Interpretation Our Everything Kind Uncomfortable Because Robots Been Commands Very Human Being Turned

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

People Money Circumstances Would No Idea Something Given Had Idea Like Involved Get Bangladesh Which Lending Poor Poor People Working Ever

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation. Muhammad Yunus

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away. Muhammad Yunus

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 Become Philanthropist Kind Touched Never Part Economists Said Go Selfishness Selflessness Different Different Kind Create Business World Expression Based

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you. Muhammad Yunus

You Everybody Say Wants Help Moment

Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition. Muhammad Yunus

You People Out Proposition Reach How Banking Conventional Cannot Shown

The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully. Muhammad Yunus

Saying People Profit Only Wrong Also Practiced Am Been Selfless Person Same Interested Capitalist Theory Who Orientation Fully Interpreted

I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money. Muhammad Yunus

Happiness Money Assumes Our Framework Economic Said Always Making Making Money Sources Current Human Just Human Beings Many Beings

The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any change in this structure will be devastating for the bank. Muhammad Yunus

Beautiful Change Legal Will Objectives Structure Devastating Ideals Up Amendment Any Bank Ordinance Fulfillment

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

Business Change World Opportunities Country Think Analyzing Summit About Facilitate Potential Development Like Global Role Process Region Social Search Strategically Platforms Growth Bringing Need

Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care. Muhammad Yunus

Health Quality People Care Valuable Nothing More Feel Demand Like Health Care Beggars Than Customers Should Paying Less Who

Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest but not our collective interest. Muhammad Yunus

Beautiful Business Selfish Money Problems Collective Our Solve Only Purpose Never Make Very Interest Use Mechanism Satisfies

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