One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like. Muhammad Yunus More Quotes by Muhammad Yunus More Quotes From Muhammad Yunus When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base. With women participating in building this economic base, it becomes the foundation for better social and economic future. Muhammad Yunus tiny-things foundation strong Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Muhammad Yunus poverty initiative charity We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people. Muhammad Yunus different people ideas If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity, full of capability, it's a wonderful creation, but many people never get a chance to explore that, never know that she or he has that. Muhammad Yunus use want people 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 opportunity order What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells a hot dog on the street is as much an entrepreneur as anyone else. Getting his $50 loan to start could be as difficult as finding $50 million for someone else. All people are entrepreneurs. Muhammad Yunus issues dog people 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. Muhammad Yunus real giving people In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick it up. In a worms eye view you don't have that advantage of looking at everything. Muhammad Yunus eye views bird 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 entrepreneur born chance Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker. Muhammad Yunus inspiring jobs thinking I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver. Muhammad Yunus poverty life-is jobs When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences. Muhammad Yunus responsibility use worry I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision. Muhammad Yunus vision different two Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities. Muhammad Yunus poverty support people Human beings have enormous resilience. Muhammad Yunus enormous resilience humans What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues. Muhammad Yunus issues believe years The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability. Muhammad Yunus poor alive facts Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. Muhammad Yunus making-money fun world Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly. Muhammad Yunus creativity people needs 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. Muhammad Yunus should graduation jobs
