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"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."
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"A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer."
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Personal Development
"Wherever mom is, there is my heart and my home."
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Personal Development
"Oh, how terribly backwards, and yet sadly common, it is to sit scowling at family all the day long and then quickly put on a smile for strangers who drop by."
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Personal Development
"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."
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Personal Development
"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."
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Personal Development
"Family is a fortress."
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Personal Development
"Children are God's gift."
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Personal Development
"I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier."
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Personal Development
"Children of the light, walk in the light."
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Personal Development
"Dads, no matter your relationship with your kid's mom, honor her this weekend. Mother's Day isn't about you or drama. It's about her and her impact on your ids. Be grateful. Celebrate her. and if you can't get out of your own way, do it for your kids."
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"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."
People
"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 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
"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 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
"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
"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
"They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy."
Money
"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."
Money
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