196 Quotes by Muhammad Yunus

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

Nothing is quite as beautiful as farmers harvesting their rice.

Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity full of capability, is a wonderful creation. But many people never get a chance to explore that, never, no that she nor he has that.

Even today we don’t pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn’t be poor.

Poor people always pay back their loans. It’s us, the creators of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let’s do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It’s building brick by brick.

Business money is limitless.