"Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society."
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Muhammad Yunus, born on June 28, 1940, in Chittagong, Bangladesh, is a visionary social entrepreneur and economist renowned for founding the Grameen Bank in 1983. His pioneering work in microfinance has transformed the lives of millions by providing financial services to the impoverished, particularly women, enabling them to become self-sufficient. As a Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2006, Yunus’s legacy transcends economic boundaries, advocating for social business models that prioritize human dignity and empowerment over profit. His insights continue to inspire global movements for poverty alleviation.
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"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"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"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."
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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"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"Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself."
Muhammad Yunus"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."
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"Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in."
Muhammad Yunus"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."
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"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."
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"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"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."
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"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."
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