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MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.
MUHAMMAD ALI
God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my nam...
MUHAMMAD ALI
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can...
MUHAMMAD ALI
Service to others is the rent which you pay for your room here on earth.
MUHAMMAD ALI
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Don't count the days, make the days count.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Explaining why he refused induction into the Army. I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Congs.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I'm a baaaadd man!!
MUHAMMAD ALI
I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fig...
MUHAMMAD ALI
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
MUHAMMAD ALI
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the nigh...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder...
MUHAMMAD ALI
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
MUHAMMAD ALI
It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
MUHAMMAD ALI
Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to th...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We o...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our soc...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the ci...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Human beings are much bigger than just making money.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Human beings have enormous resilience.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abjec...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us trem...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innov...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS