"People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator."
"The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor - by making rich the richer and poor the poorer."
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Source: Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.229, Hachette UK
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