Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched … - Muhammad Yunus

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One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.

Muhammad Yunus

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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