- Joyce Klein, Director, Business Ownership Initiative, The Aspen Institute

Grit and Growth operates on multiple levels. It is a history of a three-decade entrepreneurial journey launching and stewarding a remarkable CDFI supporting the aspirations of thousands of small businesspeople. It offers practical wisdom, but is also a love letter to future entrepreneurs, and a celebration of the human spirit and the will to strive, to risk, and to dream.
- Thomas A. Gougeon, President, Gates Family Foundation

Grit and Growth is destined to quickly become the go-to bible for present and or future entrepreneurs. The hard-won lessons and stories included have been collected over three decades by the amazingly talented and experienced authors and offer priceless advice and counsel to anyone in the business world.

- Ann Rhoades, President, Peopleink, Exec Founder, Jet Blue Airlines

Entrepreneurs are dreamers. They are also enigmas. Despite their importance to the national economy and local communities, they are poorly understood. Grit and Growth is a masterful account of what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Read, learn, be equipped, and be inspired.

- Dr. Brett Theodos, Director, Center for Local Finance and Growth, Urban Institute

More than half of new small businesses in America don't make it for more than three years. Unfortunately, most entrepreneurship books are about the literally lucky few who succeed wildly, not the majority who have to deploy all their grit and more to grow. In this book, Anne, Amber, and Laura share the stories and lessons of entrepreneurs like you, not the lucky few. Even better, they have had to live those lessons themselves building one of the toughest businesses out there—a lender to entrepreneurs like themselves.

- Timothy N. Ogden, Executive Partner, Sona Partners