We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. … - Muhammad Yunus

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.

Muhammad Yunus

We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. 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.

Accept, Believe, Business, Make, People, Poor

Same Author Quotes

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

Job, Jobs, Morning, Say, Wake, Work

I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.

Believe, Economic, People, System, Systems, World

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Opportunity, People

All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed. . . finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where human history began. . . As civilization came we suppressed it. We became labor because they stamped us, ‘You are labor. ’ We forgot that we are entrepreneurs.

Civilization, Entrepreneur, History, Labor, Self

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

Day, Grandchildren, Museums, Optimistic, Poverty, See