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'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.

I can't Words Believe World
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I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.

Try Role model People Decide
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Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

Believe Reward Great Struggle
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When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.

Famous God Purpose Life
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No matter what accomplishments you make,somebody helps you.

Matter Accomplishments Somebody Helps
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I would be disappointed if I were remembered as a runner because I feelthat my contribution to the youth of America has far exceeded the woman who was the Olympic champion.

Disappointed Contribution Youth Woman
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No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I've always been positive, no matter what happened.

Life Good Me Positive
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Later on in life, I discovered that in order for me to be successful, I had to have a challenge. I can't do a nine to five job.

Life Order Successful Challenge
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The Covid_19 pandemic is forcing us to RETHINK everything, how we combat corruption. We cannot fight it using the same old methods that have gotten us nowhere.

Pandemic Forcing us Rethink everything Combat corruption
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Deworming programs are funded by others. It creates dependence not independence.

Deworming programs Are founded By others Create dependence
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It's important to stop thinking about innovation opportunities through the lens of sectors.It's limiting.Instead, we should think about innovation opportunities through the lens of struggle.

Stop thinking Innovation opportunities It's limiting
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Rich countries have spend 120x more on Covid_19 relief than poor countries.That is for every $1 a poor country spends, rich countries spend $120.

Rich countries Have spend Poor countries
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Fighting poverty isn’t the answer. Creating prosperity is,they’re not the same thing.

Fighting poverty The answer Creating prosperity Same thing
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For America, and every rich country we’ve studied, innovation came before development. But for Africa, we want development to come before innovation.

Rich country We've studied Innovation came Before development
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What people really want is prosperity. Security. Hope. And a future where they can imagine things getting better.

Really want Is prosperity Security Hope
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Improving poverty metrics without hope is akin to improving symptoms of a disease without focusing on the root cause. The patient, unfortunately, still dies.

Improving poverty Metric Without hope Symptoms
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If your ideas don’t Scare you and Cause others to laugh at you,Then they’re likely not transformative market creating ideas.

Your ideas Scare you To laugh Transformative market
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COVID19 simply exposes our prosperity problem.

Simply exposes Prosperity problem
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It’s incredibly important to understand the history of racism, it’s compounding nature characteristics, and how it still affects people today.

Incredibly important The history Racism Nature characteristics
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The problem of under-development is often selfishness and small-mindedness, that is people who severely lack vision.

The problem Under-development Often selfishness Small-mindedness
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As countries get wealthier, their governments get wealthier and more powerful too. But no, Poor-country governments want it all for themselves and they want it now. How sad. How unfortunate.

As countries Get wealthier Their government Powerful too
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Debt isn’t quite the issue. It’s what you do with it. Africa’s debt often doesn’t fund capability improvements.

Debt The issue Fund Capability improvements
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The problem is neither malaria nor mosquitoes, or this new strain.The problem is poverty. Parts of the US once struggled with malaria. We keep focusing on the wrong problem.

The problem Malaria Nor mosquitoes New strain
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Africa’s development strategy must change.

Development strategy Must change
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Friends, I've learned that it doesn't matter how hard you work at something, getting the right answer to the wrong question ends up not having impact.In your work, venture, and life, what questions are you trying to answer?

How hard You work Right answer Wrong question
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I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.

I Use Internet Find
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You can’t pay enough money to… cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

Money Feeling Broken Confused
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Market-creating innovation, at its simplest, is a disciplined commitment to find the best way to serve people, especially nonconsumers.

Market-innovations Its simplest Disciplined commitment Best way
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Market-creating organizations are creating new markets, the firms to which a company might outsource operations to, often don’t exist or are unreliable.

Market-creating organizations New market The firms A company
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Efficiency innovations eliminate jobs.

Efficiency innovations Eliminate jobs
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Thomas Edison gave us the light bulb, but to commercialize it, he built a system, including a generator, substation, and transmission lines.Market-creating innovations require innovators to build systems.

Light bulb Commercialize it A system A generator
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People are flexible. Systems are not. If you seek to change a system, focus on changing/incentivizing the people in charge of the system.

People Are flexible To change A system
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Digital solutions require an analog foundation.You can do e-commerce, only when you have commerce.

Digital solutions Analog foundation Do e-commerce Have commerce
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Strategy is what you do, not what you say you'll do.The easiest way to honestly assess your strategy is by looking at your calendar.

Strategy You do Easiest way Honestly assess
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The job of a CEO is to imagine a future better than the current one and take the company there. It’s not to simply manage operations/growth.

The job Future better The current Company there
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Throwing resources at a problem without understanding how the existing processes embedded within an organization will affect them often has limited impact.

Throwing resources A problem Without understanding Existing processes
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If your idea doesn’t scare you a bit, then it’s probably not going to be as impactful as you think.

Your idea Scare you Going to As impactful
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Since COVID19, investors have withdrawn billions from emerging market,but they have a critical role to play.

Investors Have withdrawn billions Emerging market Critical role
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In the face of a global crisis that threatens to plunge millions into poverty, stopgap measures will only go so far.

Global crisis That threatens Into poverty Stopgap measures
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By intentionally measuring students’ social capital, education systems stand to positively influence students’ academic, social, and economic success.

Internationally measuring Social capital Education systems Positively influence
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You cannot solve an institution problem by simply creating a new law or a new institution.

Cannot solve Institution problem Simply creating New law
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For the environment to be enabling, I have to enable it for myself.That’s because, a disabling environment to me is, unfortunately, enabling to the powers that be.

The environment Be enabling For myself The powers
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Instead of fighting poverty, what if we focused on building prosperity? It's not semantics. The two are entirely different.

Fighting poverty Focused on Building prosperity Not semantics
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Resources only create lasting progress when communities have the time, expertise, and systems in place to absorb them.

Resources Lasting progress When communities The time
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I hope poor countries don’t forego the opportunity to build resilient systems after COVID.

I hope Poor countries To build Resilient systems
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The whole world has slowed down.Could it be an opportunity for Africa to speed up, intelligently?

Whole world Slowed down An opportunity Speed up
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Culture is malleable. The Germans were once lazy. So were the Japanese. And the Koreans. And the Chinese. Culture is what you do. Not some inherent and immutable truth.

Culture Is malleable Once lazy You do
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Entrepreneurs, and people who create must take care of their mental health.

Entrepreneurs People Who create Take care
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To borrow is easy.To repay is hard.

To borrow Is easy Repay Is hard
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Rich countries are spending around 8% of their much larger GDPs on responding to COVID19. Poor countries are spending 0.8% of their much smaller GDPs.

Rich countries Are spending On responding Poor countries
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