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Oct 9, 2026

Muhammad YunusGUEST
3:45
In a selfless business, everything is for others, nothing for me.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
3:49
And that's what I'm calling social business.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
3:51
In social business, everything is for others, nothing for me.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
3:55
And it's by decision, not because somebody has imposed me that condition.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
3:58
And this is in us.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
4:12
But the economics doesn't make us explore that happiness.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
4:16
I said, no, no, you only make money.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
4:19
I said, if you have introduced in our structure the peace of social business, then the economy would make much more sense.
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0:57
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Muhammad YunusSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
1:21
And you don't have to, and I insist on this, you don't have to create one social business to solve all the problems or one particular problem for all the world.
Muhammad YunusSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
1:32
If I can create one social business, a tiny little social business, to employ five unemployed people in a business environment, and it's a business, it covers its costs, employs five, gives decent employment for five people, that's a beautiful solution for five people.
Muhammad YunusSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
1:51
And if I can create that, I have developed a prototype.
Muhammad YunusSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
1:55
All I have to do is to now repeat this.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
2:53
And I started giving it a name so that people understand which business I talk about.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
2:58
I call it social business.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
3:00
It's a non-dividend company to solve a social problem.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
3:04
It's a dedicated problem-solving company.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
23:22
It doesn't go down to the poor people.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
23:24
So why aren't you making alternatives like we did in banking, alternative banking? Why aren't you doing alternative health care for the poor people? And I call this kind of alternative arrangement as a social business, business to do good to people rather than making money.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
23:40
You make money somewhere else, but there are issues where you shouldn't be looking for money.
Muhammad YunusGUEST
23:45
you should be looking for doing good to people healthcare is one you can run it as a business these social businesses are businesses which are non-loss non-dividend companies so you are not going there for dividends you measure your success by seeing how many poor people have been reached with your health care program how many poor people have has access to your drinking water clean water how many people have sanitation in their houses how many poor people have not decent houses as a business not as a charity charity is wonderful but it has all it has limited reach you can't solve all the world of the problem of the world by charity so if you put it in a business format then there is a chance you can reach out to everybody because it's recycling of money and money stays on you can expand the business and so on
Charlie RoseHOST
24:33
You're sort of the founder of this movement.
Charlie RoseHOST
24:35
What are the new ideas that are sort of coming out of it?

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