Quotes by Bangladeshi authors
We live in the world when we love it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, playwright, and composer
What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change.
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi social entrepreneur
They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi social entrepreneur
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, playwright, and composer
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, playwright, and composer
Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi social entrepreneur
There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi social entrepreneur
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, playwright, and composer
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.
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi social entrepreneur
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, playwright, and composer
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, playwright, and composer
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, playwright, and composer
Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.
Iqbal Quadir
entrepreneur
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.
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi social entrepreneur
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi social entrepreneur
We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi social entrepreneur
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.
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi social entrepreneur
I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person's existence.
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi social entrepreneur
I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi social entrepreneur
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
Iqbal Quadir
entrepreneur
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