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"Poverty is unnecessary."
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"Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts."
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"If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken."
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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
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"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."
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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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"The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty."
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"Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup."
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"Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance."
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"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor."
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"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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"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."
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"They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy."
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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."
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"Business money is limitless."
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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."
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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
"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 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
"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."
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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."
Money
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