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“When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.”

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“I never doubted I would have a roof over my head, a school to go to, enough to to eat, books (and newspapers) to read, a safe neighborhood to play in and a doctor to see if I got sick. My parents and grandparents made sure I knew I was lucky.”

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Book:It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!

Source: It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!

“Born in 1987 in Malawi, William grew up in a village with no electricity or running water, and in a family that barely survived on the food it grew with a little left over to pay for school. After a terrible drought in 2001, William had to drop out of school because his family could no longer afford his school fees. He kept educating himself by going to the library and reading everything he could. One day, he found a book on windmills and determined he'd build one. So he did. Starting with scrap parts he found in light bulbs and radios. William built the first windmill he or his village had ever seen. And it worked, generating electricity for his family and his neighbors. Williamkamkwamba.com”

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Book:It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!

Source: It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!

“If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush.”

Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.”

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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd.”

Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“People who understand how to convert their time into useful products do not complain of boredom. They have too many important tasks to accomplish that they can hardly get bored.”

Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time feeding your distractions.”

Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.”

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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“It is only when you run away from what society wants you to do with your time and then invest that time into doing what you were born to do that you can attain greatness and live a fulfilled life.”

Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?