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Muhammad Yunus Women

Muhammad Yunus | women

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

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Muhammad Yunus technology

Muhammad Yunus | technology

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

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Muhammad Yunus society

Muhammad Yunus | society

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.

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Muhammad Yunus peace

Muhammad Yunus | peace

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted it’s the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

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money Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus | money

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

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Muhammad Yunus | money

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

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Muhammad Yunus | money

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

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money Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus | money

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

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future Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus | future

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted it’s the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

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Food Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus | food

What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don’t have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.

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