Never ask for small loans.

Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Imagine you have six loans, small to huge. People want to close loans and because of that, they try to pay off the small…

— Dan Ariely

Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built,…

— Natalie Portman

“As my father used to say: "There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.

— John Stumpf

Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with…

— Bill Dedman

The S.B.A. does not lend directly to businesses, but instead backs loans to encourage banks to invest in small businesses as part of a…

— Karen Mills

“Darling, don't be silly, your whole future is ahead of you. All you have to do is go out there and ask for a…

— Anna Godbersen

“Ask no small questions”

— Larrie D. Ferreiro

Learning to ask is like flexing a muscle. The more you do it, the easier it becomes. I started by learning how to ask…

— Caroline Ghosn

“like to ask you for one small favor. If you liked my book”

— Anonymous

What people do is they pay the small loans first. Why? Because they enjoy making the number of loans smaller. But of course it…

— Dan Ariely

Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic…

— James Surowiecki

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through…

— Georg Buchner