Poor Can Create Poverty-Free World if Unchained

"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

Our Economic & Social Institutions Created Poverty

"Poverty has been created by the economic and social system that we have designed for the world. It is the institutions that we have built and feel so proud of, which created poverty" -- Muhammad Yunus

We Can Create a Poverty Free World if We Want To

"I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank" -- Muhammad Yunus

Belief in Poverty Perpetuates Poverty: Choose Prosperity

"If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world" -- Muhammad Yunus

Search for Poor Entrepreneurs Banking Challenge

"I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out" -- Muhammad Yunus

One Day Poverty Will Exist Only in Museums

"One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like" -- Muhammad Yunus