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1217 Philanthropist Quotes

I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That's not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on.

Africa Amount Coming Continent
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Go out of your way to be kind to ordinary people like gatemen, secretaries and cleaners. They may not have money and power to give you, but they can direct you to where to get money and power. But do it because it is the right thing to do anyway

Go out Your way Kind Gate men
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One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.

Diamond Different Likes Maximum
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You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars.

Cents Diamond Dollars Exactly
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Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.
Africa Businesses Certainty Clearly
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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

About Achieve Foot Game
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It is only the future in which I am really vitally interested.

Only Future Vitally interested
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Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

Impossible Almost everyone Ideas Fantasies
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Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?

Passion You crazy Live
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Sure striving for doing the impossible means being obsessed, it’s constant persistence. But isn’t this a sign of a life worth living, rather than one spent sitting on the sofa?

Doing Impossible Being obsessed Constant persistence
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I intend to be, the richest man in the world.

Intended Richest man World
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I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.

I want Remembered Contribution Aviation
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I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.

By nature Perfectionist Trouble Mistake
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I am willing to go beyond all limitations

Willing To go All limitations
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If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

Worked on Assumption True Hope
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If you have a workforce that enjoys each other, they trust each other, they trust management, they’re proud of where they work – then they’re going to deliver a good product.

Workforce Enjoys Trust management Good product
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Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Men Wise Become rich Save
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I have my own religion. My conception of religion is being to the other fellow what you would like for him to be to you and do what you think is necessary to be the type of man that God could appreciate

Own religion My conception Fellow God
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This is a business. The purpose of a business is to make money. If it happens to make art, too, that would be secondary and accidental.

Business Make money Art Accidental
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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

Living Dream Yesterday Impossible
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It’s so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions

Important Experience Customers Suggestions
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Adventure is the essence of life.
Adventure Essence Life
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The trouble with my life is that I do not think I am cut out to sit behind a desk

Trouble Life Think Sit
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About all else, I want to be the most famous man in the world. And I don’t care by what means I become famous, as long as fame comes.

Most famous World What means
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Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.

Never Make decision Wrong one Disclaim
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and not forgetting the recent killings of some of our girls in Nigeria, I will be observing Black Out Tuesday - an urgent step of action to provoke accountability and change ⁣ Let us all stand up together to fight this inequality and injustice. ⁣

Recent killing Our girls Black out Accountability
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To young Nigerian,work hard and do not be in hurry to make it.

Young Work hard Hurry Make it
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The masses of our people are chained down in dehumanizing and grinding poverty,while we continue to maintain few island of false prosperity turbulent ocean of penury and squalor.

Masses Chained down Dehumanizing Grinding poverty
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There is no other country where the grass is green as it is in Nigerian,do your best and you will be rewarded greatly eventually.

Other country Grass Green Best
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The future of Africa depend on how much and to what extent we can empower our young people because they constitute 60% of our population.

The future Depend How much Empower
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Africa is in the hands of Africans and we must all rise to the challenge.

Hands We must Rise Challenge
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I am a creative person and so i would create for myself the things i want around me.

Creative person Myself Things Around me
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Think about what you're passionate about. I did not learn something early enough: if I could go back, I'd tell the younger me that there's a big difference between loving to work and loving the work.

Passionate about Learn something Go back
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You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well. It's a false choice, today more than ever.

Have to Choose Doing good Well
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That has always been the objective of Apple: to do things that really enrich people's lives. That you look back on and you wonder, 'How did I live without this?'

Objective Apple Really enrich People's lives
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It's not what Apple and Beats are doing today. It's what we believe pairing the two together can produce for the future.

Doing today Believe Pairing Can produce
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I don't subscribe to the view some people have in the industry that you should purposefully design products that do not last that long. I don't think it is good for anyone.

Subscribe View Some people Industry
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We don't collect a lot of your data and understand every detail about your life. That's just not the business that we are in.

Collect Your data Understand Your life
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Our values are that we do think that people have a right to privacy. And that our customers are not our products.

Our value Think People Privacy
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It gives me a lot of energy to talk to developers or meet students in classrooms who are using our technology to help learn faster and better. Watching them pursue their passion.

Developers Meet students Classrooms Technology
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The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.

The reality Love competition Better Want people
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To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.

Given Much Expected Believe
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I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

Learned Focus Running Company
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We think coding should be required in every school because it's as important as any kind of second language.

Think coding Every school Important Kind
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The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you're wrong? And do you change? The most important thing to me as a CEO is that we keep the courage.

Important thing Courage Admit Wrong
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At one point in time, you had to choose, 'Do you want to do consumer or enterprise?' But the reality today is a bit different: Enterprises are a collection of consumers.

Do consumer Enterprise Reality today Collection
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Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it.

Culture Excellence Unique Special
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We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus - we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products

Make sure Stay true Focus Do great
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I think two people with strong points of view can appreciate each other even more.

Think Two people Strong point Appreciate
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Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job, and life is too short for that.

Work takes Meaning Pointed Right direction
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