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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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"Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well."
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Personal Development
"Wilted or in bloom,taking or lending daylight,the world transitions."
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Personal Development
"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."
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Personal Development
"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
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Personal Development
"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"
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Personal Development
"There are no real start-overs, only start-from-heres."
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"With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!"
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Personal Development
"In your winter you deny your spring."
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Personal Development
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
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"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."
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"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
"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
"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."
Change
"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."
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
"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
"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
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