"Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity."

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Source : "Tips for Entrepreneurial Philanthropy" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2011.

Naveen Jain

#Opportunity Quotes #Entrepreneur Quotes #Survival Quotes

“Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.”
“All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.”
“It would have been better if I had won, but reaching the final was perfect.”
“Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.”

Source : Harold D. Lasswell (1986). “Psychopathology and Politics”, p.8, University of Chicago Press
“A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's diet is insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless.”

Source : Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.67, Penguin
“I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.”
“Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?”
“And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.”

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