Interesting Quotes

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[RichardF]

  Have you come across any interesting quotes about microfinance, sustainable development, sharing with others, squirrels, or whatever?  Well, here's the place to share them!

[RichardF]

"The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them."

- Muhammad Yunus

[RichardF]

"After years of work in Orangi I realised that I was then a solitary old man, but there was another blessing which I wrote about. A kind fate has not yet taken away from me, even in my dotage, the improvising ability of Robinson Crusoe and the benevolent fantasy of Don Quixote."

- Akhtar Hameed Khan

[RichardF]

"Of course, our work is far from done. Yet considering current growth trends, I know that by the time I retire over 100 million households worldwide will have been benefited by the poverty vaccine of microfinance and/or village banking. What I also know is that my grandchildren will inherit a world where severe poverty has been abolished."

- John Hatch

[RichardF]

"It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency. "

- Jeffrey Sachs

[RichardF]

"I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary."

- Gro Harlem Brundtland

[Wood Fairy Glenda]

  Mark Twain:

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain".

[multimutts]

 

"Compassion is my true religion"

--His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

[RichardF]

"He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich."

- Benjamin Franklin

[qwiksilver]

"Give a man a fish, you'll feed him for a day.  Teach him to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime."


or something like that.  Kiva kinda modifies that to "Loan him money for a boat and some nets..."