"People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator."
"I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue."
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Source: Muhammad Yunus' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2006.
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