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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully.

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• ‟ I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

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• ‟ They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

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• ‟ Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

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• ‟ I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.

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• ‟ I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

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• ‟ Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.

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• ‟ 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.

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