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"Poverty is unnecessary."
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"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
"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
"Poverty is unnecessary."
Poverty
"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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"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
"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
"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
"Business money is limitless."
Business
"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."
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"Poverty is being single."
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Personal Development
"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."
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Personal Development
"Juice is a poor man's dessert."
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Personal Development
"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."
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Personal Development
"Poverty is spiritual halitosis."
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Personal Development
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
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Personal Development
"Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup."
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Personal Development
"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
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Personal Development
"Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease and smells."
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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
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