Jeanne Jacoby Smith

“I would define development by focusing on the quality of life of the lower 25 percent of the population. This”
― Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

“There are many ways for people to die, but somehow dying of starvation is the most unacceptable of all. It happens in slow motion. Second by second, the distance between life and death becomes smaller and smaller, until the two are in such close proximity that one can hardly tell the difference.”
― Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

“When you can hold the world in your palm and see it from a bird’s eye view, you tend to become arrogant – you do not realize that when looking from such a great distance, everything becomes blurred, and that you end up imagining rather than really seeing things.”
― Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: The Story of the Grameen Bank

“People like Sufiya were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institutions in the country did not help them widen their economic base.”
― Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty