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Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles. ”
In 2010, I was working in a bank in Lagos. It was a crazy job with long working hours. I had to leave for the office by 5:30 A.M., and sometimes I wouldn't be back until midnight. ”
When I had a full-time job, I would write dialogue and sketch characters on my commute and during meetings. Now, I forsake showers and regular meals and stay at my desk for hours, taking breaks to drink tea and eat something sweet, usually cake. ”
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. ”
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started. ”
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. ”
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. ”
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. ”
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. ”
I began as a striker, then became a holding midfielder, and now I'm a centre-half. I've done everything except play in goal. ”