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I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

Loved Feeling Freedom Person
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It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

Matter Accomplish Discipline Life
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I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

I ran Sense Determination Give up
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I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.

Important Aspect Yourself Confidence
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We must learn to dream. 59 years ago, no one would have predicted that Taiwan would be ‘donating’ anything to save the EU. Yet here we are. Africa, 50 years from now, who will you be saving?

Must learn To dream Have predicted Donating anything
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An underrated resource entrepreneurs need is emotional support, ideally from other entrepreneurs.

Underrated resource Entrepreneurs needs Emotional support
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We need to encourage young people to engage in global issues in order to influence national institutions and processes constructively.

Encourage young People Global issues National institutions
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I urge Lagosians to support the State government through prayers and strong support for policies, as well as adherence to rules laid out by the government at these trying times.

To support Government Through prayers For policies
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Don't use your children as pawns. As someone who experienced that, i hate to see parents, especially moms, do it.

Your children As pawns Experienced that I hate
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As Head of Partnerships for my organisation, i have had much smoother partnership meetings with women than i have had with men.

My organization Smoother partnership Meetings With women
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Why do scammers trying to scam you insult you when they realize you're onto them? What's my crime exactly?

Do scammers Insult you They realize My crime
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This virus is breaking our world in terrible ways and it will only be known much later. We will have a lot to fix.

This virus Breaking Our world Terrible ways
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COVID19 validated why science is crucial to the survival and prosperity of nations.

Validated Why science Is crucial The survival
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Whatever you do, don't be an apologist for this lot.It may be complicated but Nigeria won't go far with this crop of people as leaders.

You do An apologist Be complicated As leaders
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With the pace of change in the world, there's no country on the continent that can accelerate its 'national innovation system' fast enough without intentional partnerships.

The world No country Can accelerate Its national
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