Muhammad Yunus Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

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

  Muhammad Yunus

  Frustration, Rights, Poverty

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.239, PublicAffairs

• One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Optimistic, Grandchildren, Museums

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Interview, March 25, 1997.

• Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Business, Museums, Luxury

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.223, PublicAffairs

• In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Credit, Poverty

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2012

• Poverty is unnecessary.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Poverty, Unnecessary, Finance

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

• This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Inspiration, People, Charity

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

• I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Believe, People, World

  Muhammad Yunus' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2006.

• If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Real, People, Giving

• Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Museums, Doe, Poverty

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2012

• Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Charity, Poverty, Initiative

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor”, p.283, Penguin Books India

• When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Responsibility, Worry, Use

• What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Believe, Years, Issues

• Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Powerful, Distance, Issues

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty”, p.173, PublicAffairs

• I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Jobs, Poverty, Life Is

• 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

• Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Motivational, Community, Important

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor”, p.19, Penguin Books India

• We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Charity, Poverty, Rich

  Twitter post from Sep 01, 2011

• We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Ideas, People, Different

• My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe that humans are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they did in the past because we turn our heads away from this issue.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Business, Believe, Creativity

  Muhammad Yunus (2003). “Banker to the Poor: The Story of the Grameen Bank”, p.11, Aurum Press Limited

• Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Thinking, People, Lazy

• If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Thinking, Creating, World

• The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Museums, Poverty, Should

• ...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street. When people hide behind a culture, you know that's a dead culture.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Counter Culture, Two, People

  Muhammad Yunus (2010). “Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs”, p.66, PublicAffairs

• 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

• Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Meaningful, Creativity, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Yunus from Oct 11, 2012

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