Poor Quotes (1311 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Zhang Ziyi
„Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.“
― Zhang Ziyi ―
Picture of quotation author Philip Zimbardo
„My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.“
― Philip Zimbardo ―
Picture of quotation author Philip Zimbardo
„I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.“
― Philip Zimbardo ―
Picture of quotation author Zig Ziglar
„I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.“
― Zig Ziglar ―
Picture of quotation author Zinedine Zidane
„I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.“
― Zinedine Zidane ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„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.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional route where the rich will do the business and the poor will depend on private or public charity.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Malala Yousafzai
„In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.“
Picture of quotation author Henny Youngman
„A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.“
― Henny Youngman ―
Picture of quotation author Loretta Young
„No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.“
― Loretta Young ―
Picture of quotation author Angus Young
„I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.“
― Angus Young ―

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