I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. Muhammad Yunus More Quotes by Muhammad Yunus More Quotes From Muhammad Yunus We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life. Muhammad Yunus poverty problem done But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities. Muhammad Yunus doe opportunity people If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen Muhammad Yunus imagine want happens My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty. Muhammad Yunus future vision world Poverty is unnecessary. Muhammad Yunus unnecessary finance poverty I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have. Muhammad Yunus poverty done thinking Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty. Muhammad Yunus government hands people 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. Muhammad Yunus unique decision mean I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future. Muhammad Yunus conflict absence sometimes The crisis is the price for the capitalist system Muhammad Yunus capitalist crisis By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society. Muhammad Yunus impact entrepreneur real The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them! Muhammad Yunus encouragement opportunity inspirational 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 selfishness different expression 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 ideas 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. Muhammad Yunus community important motivational Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor. Muhammad Yunus lazy people thinking A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours. Muhammad Yunus levels should islands ...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street. When people hide behind a culture, you know that's a dead culture. Muhammad Yunus counter-culture two people The only place where poverty should be is in museums. Muhammad Yunus poverty should museums Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. Muhammad Yunus poverty doe museums
