Muhammad Yunus

“Technology is important. But the real important thing is, what are you going to do with it?”

“While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.”

“All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves, we were all self-employed... finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where human history began.”

“Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations.”

“Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.”

“I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by the poor. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves.”

“Credit is a human right.”

“The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.”

“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.”

“People were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long... They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base.”

“Charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.”

“Social business is a cause-driven business.”

“When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center on her children.”

“The process of discovering the strengths of a person is a lot more fun than discovering the weaknesses.”

“Human beings are not born to be unemployed.”

“We can create a world without poverty because we are the first generation that can. All we have to do is believe it.”

“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.”