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 YunusCredit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs.
Muhammad YunusI 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 YunusThere 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 YunusMy experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe that humans are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they did in the past because we turn our heads away from this issue.
Muhammad Yunus