Business Quote by Ananya Birla

Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.

— Kofi Annan

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

— Jonathan Morduch

A well-functioning microfinance bank can actually be a profitable business as well. So it became a perfect proof point that, through business, you can…

— Pierre Omidyar

Microfinance initiatives are very high-touch models. The loan officer meets with local groups of borrowers every week, they share tips and techniques. There's a…

— Pierre Omidyar

“This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will…

— Ian Smillie

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.

— Muhammad Yunus

Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks - I was telling people don't go to loan sharks - not trying to take advantage and…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Square has already found that the micro-merchant market isn't a profitable business, and as a result they have been trying to shift into the…

— Jared Isaacman

One of the things that's great about the financial industry is, it's really financially rewarding.

— Stephanie Ruhle