Skip to content

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

Another quote →

Topics

Poverty

More quotes by Muhammad Yunus

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

This attack is not only on Hadi, this attack is on the existence of whole Bangladesh.

Making money from business is happiness, but making other people happy is super happiness.

Poor people always pay back their loans. It's us, the creators of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

Grameen Bank II: Designed to Open New Possibilities (2002)

You cannot change the world in a day...if you want to change, start from your village.

All Muhammad Yunus quotes →

You may also like

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Muhammad Yunus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.