Microfinance Quotes

• Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.

  Kofi Annan

  Ideas, Microcredit

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• Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty.

  Jonathan Morduch

  Fighting, Tools, Cost

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• Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge, posing an untapped opportunity to create markets, bring people in from the margins and give them the tools with which to help themselves.

  Kofi Annan

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge

  Kofi Annan

  People, Energy, Poor

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• Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

  Motivation, Powerful, Moving

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• Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation - microfinance - involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Fighting, Two

  "What Microloans Miss". www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

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• The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Want, Helping, Moments

  Interview with Neha Thirani, www.thedailystar.net. February 24, 2012.

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• We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks - I was telling people don't go to loan sharks - not trying to take advantage and make money for myself. I would be a junior loan shark if I did ... It is not a panacea.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Fighting, Sharks, People

  "Muhammad Yunus: 'Business is a beautiful mechanism to solve problems'". Interview with Liz Ford, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Wall, Successful, Thinking

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• In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information.

  Joyce Banda

  Jobs, Training, Different

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