If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not … - Muhammad Yunus

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IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.

Muhammad Yunus

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.

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People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

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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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All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

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All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed. . . finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where human history began. . . As civilization came we suppressed it. We became labor because they stamped us, ‘You are labor. ’ We forgot that we are entrepreneurs.

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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

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