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Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
My business acumen is definitely growing. -- Kevin Hart
My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years. -- Donna Mills
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals. -- Bradley Whitford
My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin. -- Bibhu Mohapatra
With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight. -- Chris Bohjalian
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 you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence. -- Frederick Lenz
I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us. -- Robin S. Sharma
I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them. -- Vladimir Nabokov
IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen. -- Bill Vaughan
When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetration & acumen. They have robbed us of the bloom. -- Herman Melville
Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's a bit like gut instinct, but a little more developed. -- Donald Trump
This is what happens with a breakthrough. The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken. Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge. -- Gwen Ifill
As both developed and developing nations search for alternative sources of energy in response to the growing energy crisis, we at Acumen Fund believe that investing in entrepreneurs who provide innovative energy solutions is an increasingly critical part of the solution. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better thanthe metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men. -- J. L. Austin
Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit. -- Russell Simmons
First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in analyzing those facts will pay off in better performance somehow measured. (By this logic, cure for cancer must have been found by 1955). -- Paul Samuelson
But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'. -- Arthur Levitt Jr
The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth. -- Antonin Scalia
For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith. -- Criss Jami
Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand. -- Sophia Amoruso
I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest. -- Trey Gowdy
I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us. -- Robin S. Sharma
I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she's both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
One has to draw upon one's own musical thoughts and one's own musical acumen, and not to be afraid to let that come into one's work. Perhaps that comes with more experience, but perhaps it also comes with daring, and believing that you should. -- Jessye Norman
A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind. -- Angelica Hopes
As you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence. -- Frederick Lenz
People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing. They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience. -- Adam Richman
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 of people in America. -- Mike Pence

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