Muhammad Yunus Quotes

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

Muhammad Yunus

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
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  • Birth: June 28, 1940

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BusinessWorldI CanCreateGoSaid

Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.

Jessica Williams

GoodMeBasketballPlayAggressive

Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.

John Buford

PlaceEnemyExcitementTerrible

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

Jeremy Renner

GamblingStock MarketWillNever

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Maurice Maeterlinck

AloneDarkOthersNeverSameEven

I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.

Steve Wynn

BestBelieveThinkPoliticalVegas

Seasonally ploughing and harvesting crops will mash up a few moles, slice through a burrow of field mice and crush any ground-nesting bird chicks. Far more significant, however, is the creation of the field in the first place: an act that replaces entire ecosystems, along with all their animal inhabitants.

Tristram Stuart

BirdAnimalPlaceCreationWillUp

I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married.

Michael Moore

BelieveRightTellCannotMarried

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

Jean de la Bruyere

ManWorldThoughtWishesSeemMust

I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?

Jasmine Guinness

DayMeSayingThoughtLaughHorse

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Chita Rivera

AmazingCaliforniaUsSouthernBeen

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.

Chen Shui-bian

SocietyDividedHalfBeingMustOur

I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.

Christian Slater

I AmBlueFaceI CanNobodyKnows

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