Muhammad Yunus Quotes About Opportunity

Quotes about: Opportunity

• 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!

  Muhammad Yunus

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Opportunity

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2015

• All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Opportunity, People, Entrepreneur

• People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution to poverty. Poverty is the creation of opportunities like everybody else has, not the poor people, so bring them to the poor people, so that they can change their lives.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Opportunity, People, Support

• My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take loans and implement his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes possible. And second: that it will lead to a world where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world completely free from poverty.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Opportunity, Self, Ideas

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

• I did something that challenged the banking world.
  Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor.
  All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Inspirational, Opportunity, People

• We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more carefully. Men are more callous with money. Their first reflex is to blow it by getting drunk in a pub, or on prostitutes or gambling. Women, on the other hand, are endowed with a tremendous sense of self-sacrifice and try to get the best out of the money, for their children, but also for their husbands.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Children, Husband, Sacrifice

• 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.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Opportunity, People, Doe

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

• UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Believe, Fall

• In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Creativity, Opportunity, Order

• What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Opportunity, Thinking

  "How We Can Bring About Change" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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