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Policies are also to blame the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.

Quote 69: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Charity, Quotes

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty...

Quote 68: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Charity, Quotes

Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional route where the rich will do the business and the poor will depend on private or public charity.

Quote 67: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Charity, Quotes

The world is changing very fast... take advantage of that speed which will give us a new ability to let the world rise.

Quote 66: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Development, Quotes

We can continue to build the world in our own way, piece by piece.

Quote 65: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Development, Quotes

In a world where you need a dollar to catch a dollar, everyone deserves a helping hand to lift them up.

Quote 64: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Development, Quotes

In the world of development, if one mixes the poor and the non poor in a program, the non poor will always drive out the poor, and the less poor will drive out the more poor, unless protective measures are instituted right at the beginning. nbsp; In such...

Quote 63: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Development, Quotes

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn t billions of dollars people needed right away.

Quote 62: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Development, Quotes

Use the power of technology to get us connected.

Quote 61: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Technology, Quotes

Think of the smartphone as a modern-day Aladdin s lamp Touch it, and all sorts of magic can happen. The cellphone is now a powerful tool with its own lsquo;digital genie rsquo;

Quote 60: Professor Muhammad Yunus, Technology, Quotes
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