“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.”
— Muhammad Yunus
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Category: technology
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“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.”
— Muhammad Yunus
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Category: money
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“I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.”
— Muhammad Yunus
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Category: money
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“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.”
— Muhammad Yunus
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Category: women
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“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.”
— Muhammad Yunus
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Category: change
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“Human beings are much bigger than just making money.”
— Muhammad Yunus
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Category: money
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“Poverty is unnecessary.”
— Muhammad Yunus
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Category: finance
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“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
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Category: society
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“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.”
— Muhammad Yunus
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Category: finance
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“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.”
— Muhammad Yunus
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Category: environmental
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“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.”
— Muhammad Yunus
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Category: family
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