Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.
Muhammad YunusWe prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create.
Muhammad YunusI'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.
Muhammad YunusI went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
Muhammad Yunus