Muhammad Yunus

Nobel prize winning economist.

Founder of The Grameen Bank. "You look at the tiniest village, and the tiniest person in that village: a very capable person, a very intelligent person. You have only to create the proper environment to support these people so that they can change their own lives.�  That's a great definition of leadership - create the right environment in which people can be freed up to change their own lives.

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