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1217 Philanthropist Quotes

Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Think Afraid Fail Greatness
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Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.

Vision Possible Create Believe
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.

Success Paid Job Road
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Impossibility only happens in the brain.

Impossibility Only Happens Brain
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Education truly can change a person's story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an education.

Education Truly Change Story
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It is more important to secure human lives than to secure an economy.

Important Secure Human Lives
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The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

Artists Back Just Love
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My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Always Close Come Expect
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I always felt like if you get to a point where you've got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that's related to a natural resource because that's gonna be here forever - so you might as well invest in something that's gonna be here, rather than invest in something that's gonna wear out.

Always Anything Because Enough
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I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.
Around Board Got Just
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It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

Always Business First Gonna
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As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

Always Attached Giving Great
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That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

Actual Actually Anyone Anything
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Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Album Always Bought Experience
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I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

Afford African Believe Afford
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I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

Albums Always Between Come
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Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Actually Artists Controversy Deal
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The difference between dreams and success is that dreams need effortless sleep and success needs sleepless efforts.

Dream Need Effort Sleep
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I think even outside of being an artist, anyone with success should always put themselves in a position to help others.

Always Position Other Anyone
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People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not even our first or second problem, maybe the third.

First Even Problem People
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Education is the most critical tool for transforming individuals and spurring growth and development.

Growth Tool Most Development
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Democracy cannot thrive without freedom of the press.

Thrive Freedom Press Democracy
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Nigerians need not vilify those who disagree with us politically, or treat them as less patriotic or even as felons.

Treat Vilify Patriotic Disagree
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Leadership is a journey and it occurs at every stage.
Stage Journey Occurs Leadership
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In leadership, no knowledge gained is lost.

Gained Gain Lost Knowledge
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The difference between a successful and non-successful leader is the quality of decisions you make.

Between Leader Decisions Quality
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Leadership is first among equals. It goes with humility.
Humility Among Equals First
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If you want to become Steve Jobs … take it one step at a time.

Become Want Step Time
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Everything I have today is because of Africa, I was born here, went to school here, I work here and I’m achieving some level of financial comfort here.

Today Comfort Financial Work
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A true leader is one who remains committed to a higher purpose that most others do not yet see.

Purpose Leader True Remains
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It won’t be easy, but nothing worth having ever is.
Ever Easy Nothing Worth
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Therefore, whatever course you choose to take in the services of others, be guided by the goal of unleashing the inherent potential that resides in each and every one of us.

Course Services Guided Goal
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Doing things right is a challenge but doing things right consistently is a greater challenge.

Right Challenge Greater Things
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The battle against failure is real but you have to learn to confront your fears and look at failure as a temporary setback.

Battle Failure Setback Learn
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Never be afraid to change the plan. It’s not too late to start planning now, if you have not started.

Afraid Plan Late Start
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At every stage in your life, you always have to know when you need to “Transition” to the next phase of your life.

Stage Life Know Next
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The process may be long, weary and it may leave you heartbroken but fight with your every last breath. Don’t give up and don’t give in.

Process Give Long Weary
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There can be no progress without commensurate effort and discipline. Progress requires we keep PRESSING forward.
Effort Progress Forward Discipline
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We all need to get a second chance to become and come in our ‘dew’ season. When you get the chance to take another shot at life, embrace it with both hands.

Shot Life Second Hands
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Courage is stepping out into uncharted territories not knowing what your chances of success are.

Success Courage Stepping Chances
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I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Freedom Gives I Love Life
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I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

Each Family Felt Life
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The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Around Attempt Balloons Finding
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And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Challenge Obviously Our Own
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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

Airline Create Else Experience
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Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Backing Between Business Dividing
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Certainly Dyslexic Failed Grasp
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You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Doing Falling Following Learn
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My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'

Anything Attitude Day Enjoy
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My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Any Around Invest Money
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