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 The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you. Muhammad Yunus moments want helping Business money is limitless. Muhammad Yunus limitless business reality Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail. Muhammad Yunus poor long If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour with capital through a universal credit system, we'll then have other kinds of actors on the economic scene different from what the existing capitalist world would allow us to bring out. Muhammad Yunus credit actors different Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. Muhammad Yunus village quality grew-up Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them. Muhammad Yunus creating pay people We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children. Muhammad Yunus yogurt elements children 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 differences latin america 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 demand quality people I will not spend the money for myself. I will rather spend it in special business on a no-profit-no-loss policy. We will also establish an eye hospital where even beggars will be given treatment at the cost of Taka 10-20. Muhammad Yunus eye special loss I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I thought I did that. I prepared myself for that kind of road. But then I realized that I had not learned enough to solve the problem of poverty. So I distanced myself from the things that I learned and tried to learn anew about people. Muhammad Yunus poverty teaching people I'm on the faculty. I teach. And it's not easy for a poor person to enter the campus to track down the professor in the campus in a Bangladesh situation. They all will be stopped at the gate. You have no business in the university! Muhammad Yunus track poor easy It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle, to see it as it is, rather than tainted by my own previous thoughts. Muhammad Yunus struggle reality looks What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything. Muhammad Yunus educational eye school When you say vision you have a track that this is what I would like to say. Muhammad Yunus track vision 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. Muhammad Yunus today-not-tomorrow crystals happens 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 me economics poor people The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh. Muhammad Yunus medical poor self hope While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters. Muhammad Yunus matters truly technology important I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about solving problems. The company makes profit, but profit stays with the company. Muhammad Yunus you focus business people
