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 1 Share Now -
The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries. - Muhammad Yunus 2 Share Now -
We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that. - Muhammad Yunus 3 Share Now -
Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. - Muhammad Yunus 4 Share Now -
We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that. - Muhammad Yunus 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business. - Muhammad Yunus 8 Share Now -
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. - Muhammad Yunus 9 Share Now -
The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh. - Muhammad Yunus 10 Share Now -