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Poverty is unnecessary.
Business money is limitless.
Human beings have enormous resilience.
Changes are products of intensive efforts.
The crisis is the price for the capitalist system
Human beings are much bigger than just making money.
The only place where poverty should be is in museums.
A culture that holds people back should and can be changed.
Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.
The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.
The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.
My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.
While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
When you say vision you have a track that this is what I would like to say.
What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?
Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.
Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.
People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.
Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.
...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.
A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.
If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen
Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.
Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"
When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.
An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.
We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children.
If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.
This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.
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.
If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit
I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.
Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.
I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.
Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself.
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!
Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.
Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.
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.