12. Muhammad Yunus

Founder of Grameen Bank

Advice: Small Gifts can equal big impacts.

The 2006 Nobel Prize winning Economist started his career as an economics teacher in Chittagong University. He once, lent $27 to the basket weavers outside his University campus and was overwhelmed with the amount of joy it brought to them. Since then he has always given importance to small gifts as he understands the amount of difference it can bring to a persons life who aspires to be great someday.