Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed…

Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

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

— Jacqueline Novogratz

As both developed and developing nations search for alternative sources of energy in response to the growing energy crisis, we at Acumen Fund believe…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Companies that operate across borders have the expertise SMEs need. Who better to help smallholder farmers navigate complex sustainability standards than the companies who…

— Arancha Gonzalez

We need more food, more forests, better livelihoods for smallholder farmers, and lower emissions. If we want any of them, we must have all…

— Paul Polman

Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food…

— Bill Gates

Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this…

— Ida Tarbell

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen…

— Paul Samuelson

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better than the…

— J. L. Austin

I don't think that we need to see [Donald Trump] tax returns to verify his financial acumen. I walk into the Trump Tower every…

— Kellyanne Conway

“The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Donald Trump has built a business through hard times and through good times. He's brought an extraordinary business acumen, he's employed tens of thousands…

— Mike Pence