"My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see."

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"My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see."

Explore more quotes by Muhammad Yunus

"Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame."

People, Financial, Population, Shame

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

Money, People, Poor

"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."

Family, Money, Women, Policy

"Poverty is unnecessary."

Poverty,

"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."

People, Development, Right, Talking

"I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked."

Money, People, Names

"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."

Society, People, Care

"Business money is limitless."

Business, Money

"I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them."

Money, People, Giving, Woman

"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."

Money, People, Idea, Circumstances

Exlpore more Change quotes

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

John Wooden, American Coach

Change, Failure

"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Change, Love, Men, Progress, Hate

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Change,

"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Change, Content, Improvement

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Change, Chance, Day, Will

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Change, Life, Being

"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

Change, Children, Direction, Revolution

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Change, Work, Freedom, Man

"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman

Change,

"Change in all things is sweet."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Change,