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"Poverty is unnecessary."
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"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
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"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
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Personal Development
"Poverty is being single."
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Personal Development
"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."
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Personal Development
"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
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"Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor."
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Personal Development
"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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Personal Development
"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
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Personal Development
"And except on a certain kind of winter evening-six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in the bright windows of brownstones and see cooks working in clean kitchens and and imagine women lighting candles on the floor above and beautiful children being bathed on the floor above that-except on nights like those, I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it."
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"Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross."
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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."
Society
"Poverty is unnecessary."
Poverty
"They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy."
Money
"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
"Business money is limitless."
Business
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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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