Muhammad Yunus Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.”

“They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.”

“Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.”

“There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.”

“Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.”

“Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.”

“The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.”

“The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.”

“Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.”

“Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.”