Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?

— Muhammad Yunus

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They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

— Muhammad Yunus

Business money is limitless.

— Muhammad Yunus

The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully.

— 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.

— Muhammad Yunus

We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible. Let’s take the next impossible, do it with joy and get it finished with and create a world free from poverty. Let us create the world of our choice.

— Muhammad Yunus

When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.

— Muhammad Yunus

The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn’t really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.

— Muhammad Yunus

We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That’s what I did all my life.

— Muhammad Yunus

I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on “selflessness” that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.

— Muhammad Yunus

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit.

— Muhammad Yunus

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

— Muhammad Yunus

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

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I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

— Muhammad Yunus

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

People need such a small amount of money to deal with their own daily life. Because wherever I went to school they taught me about millions of dollars. I dealt with billions of dollars in national plans and investment plans and so on. Not this tiny money, $27 for 42 people.

— Muhammad Yunus

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

I’m finding that knocking at their mindsets is hard work. A simple knock will not make it crawl. I was trying to push it. I was trying to find a bird’s eye view where I could find a big solution. So this is what I was trying.

— Muhammad Yunus

When you say vision you have a track that this is what I would like to say.

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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

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
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