Quotes by Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

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The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, o — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Changes are products of intensive efforts. — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers' licenses are recognized — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They we — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illit — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability. — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by i — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be vi — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policie — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicat — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find co — Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty