Quotes by Professor Muhammad Yunus

● “I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute
to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to
and changing the world is a lot more fun.”
● “All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of
allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can
expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on.”
● “To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to
envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened
before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you
don't imagine, it will never happen.”
● “A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of
knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.”
● “When you can hold the world in your palm and see it from a bird’s eye view, you tend to
become arrogant – you do not realize that when looking from such a great distance,
everything becomes blurred, and that you end up imagining rather than really seeing
things.”
● “All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity.
Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.”
● “Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy
is a super-happiness.”
● “We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as
individuals about what kind of world they would create.”

Quotes by thought leaders

● “The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young
people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society
can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.”-
Kailash Satyarthi

● “Focus your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too
little life of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger
than yourself that you realize your true potential.”-Barack Obama
● For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and
enhances the freedom of others. - Nelson Mandela
● We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill
● The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers. -APJ Abdul
Kalam
● A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the
society. -B R AMbedkar
● “This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a
temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of
the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.” — Robert Kennedy
● “To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”- Abraham Lincoln
● The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.- Benjamin Disraeli
● “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the
impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.” – Pearl S. Buck
● The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor
by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and
women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are
themselves protected by the law. -Robert Kennedy