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"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."
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"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."
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Personal Development
"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."
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Personal Development
"People will always choose more money over more sex."
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Personal Development
"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."
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Personal Development
"Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used."
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Personal Development
"Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low."
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Personal Development
"Prospering just doesn't have to do with money."
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Personal Development
"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart."
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Personal Development
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."
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Personal Development
"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."
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"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."
Money
"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
"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
"I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation."
People
"Poverty is unnecessary."
Poverty
"Business money is limitless."
Business
"They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy."
Money
"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
"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
"There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences."
Society
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