Microcredit Quotes

• 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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• Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Banking, Reach Out

  "Create social business funds in each country and city". Interview with David Bornstein, www.thedailystar.net. April 19, 2013.

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• At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Feet, Keys, Ladders

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• Microcredit is about giving hope.

  Natalie Portman

  Giving

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• When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

  Madeleine Albright

  Communication, Technology, Opportunity

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• This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Inspiration, People, Charity

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". NBR Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.

  Kofi Annan

  Ideas, Microfinance

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• Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Entrepreneur, Poverty, Poor

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• The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Feet, Keys, Needs

  Jeffrey Sachs (2011). “The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime”, p.388, Penguin UK

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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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• If you do microcredit with men, they tend to quickly drink it. They don't pay you back.

  Jane Goodall

  Men, Pay, Drink

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take loans and implement his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes possible. And second: that it will lead to a world where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world completely free from poverty.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Opportunity, Self, Ideas

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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