Advantage Quote by Muhammad Yunus

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.

— Muhammad Yunus

What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory…

— Bernie Sanders

The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.

— Elizabeth Warren

The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“Looks like a hit on a local loan shark,” I say. “A guy by the name of Octavio”

— J. Mark Bertrand

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

— Luigi Pirandello

“What’s it about?” Danny seemed authentically curious. “The night. It’s got its own set of rules.” “Day’s got rules too.” “Oh, I know,” Joe…

— Dennis Lehane

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

— David Mitchell

In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with…

— Joyce Banda

“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

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

— Jonathan Morduch