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If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value-conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity can open up.

— C. K. Prahalad

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If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.

Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.

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Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.

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It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

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If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

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The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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