In my experience, poor people are the world s greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.
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.
All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.
What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells a hot dog on the street is as much an entrepreneur as anyone else. Getting his 50 loan to start could be as...
All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed hellip;finding our food, feeding ourselves. That rsquo;s where the human history began hellip;As civilization came we suppressed it. We became labor because they stamped us, lsquo;You are labor. rsquo; We...
There is no room in the economic literature for people making a living through self-employment, finding way to develop goods or services that they sell directly to those who need them. But in the real world, that s what you see the poor doing everywhere.
I believe all human beings are entrepreneurs. I believe all human beings have selfishness and selflessness I them. All human beings are creative. All human beings are go-getters. Cultures can give different expressions to them; can suppress some of them, but deep inside of them they continue as...
Get out there and create your future.
I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
Grameen Bank was not a thought-out plan, it was a spur-of-the-moment thing, a reaction to a moment of frustration and extreme devastation,
