NN Online:
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday urged the global investors to come up with their business in Bangladesh to change the world, saying Bangladesh possesses groundbreaking ideas with the potential to transform the world.
“Bangladesh is a country with crazy ideas to change the world…so we invite you to join that craft not only to change Bangladesh by your business but to change the world,” he said while addressing the inaugural session of Bangladesh Investment Summit-2025 at Hotel Intercontinental.
Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) organised the summit.
Prof Yunus said, “If you want to make a business with a purpose, along with the business we do, Bangladesh is the place.”
About how people become happy by doing business, the chief adviser said making money, of course, is happiness but making other people happy is super happiness.
“If you have a business in Bangladesh, you will get happiness and super happiness. You will be proud of what you have done,” he added.
Prof Yunus said he does not look at Bangladesh alone but looks at the whole region with powerful resources, stressing the need for earning money together and changing the lives of people together.
“Each of your companies can enjoy that super happiness by expanding and reaching out the impacts (to people),” he said.
The chief adviser said business can be a powerful mechanism to change the world, emphasising creation of a new civilisation.
“I underscore by saying we can create a world of ‘Three Zeros.’ It can be done with the business, not by the government. The government cannot achieve that,” he said, adding that it is not the function of the governments but it is the function of individuals – human beings.
“We are human beings. We can change the world,” he said.
Noting that the business has given a big power tool to the people’s hands, the chief adviser said the new civilization will be such a civilization where there will be no carbon emission.
Terming the carbon emission a self-destructive system, he stressed no wealth concentration, saying it is fun to make money but wealth concentration is the most dangerous thing to the human being. “It will destroy the whole world.”
He also focused on zero unemployment at the summit, saying the young generation can change the world as they have technology and innovative ideas.
