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finance Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus | finance

Poverty is unnecessary.

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finance Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus | finance

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world – out of six billion people, more than three billion – do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

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family Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus | family

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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environmental Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus | environmental

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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education Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus | education

I’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.

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Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus | change

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

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business Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus | business

There 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.’

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