Quote by Muhammad Yunus
Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women. – Muhammad Yunus

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I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. – Muhammad Yunus

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I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh. – Muhammad Yunus

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But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities. – Muhammad Yunus

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