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Corruption is often a symptom of a system that hasn't yet matured rather than the fundamental cause of poverty.

— Efosa Ojomo

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The path to prosperity is not paved by aid, but by innovation that makes products affordable and accessible to many more people.

If we want lasting prosperity, we must focus less on redistributing wealth and more on creating it.

Prosperity is created when entrepreneurs are empowered to transform complicated and expensive products into products that are simple and affordable.

Innovation doesn't simply create better products; it creates the institutions that make societies function.

Many countries don't lack resources. They lack market-creating innovations.

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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.

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