ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

• CREATE Prosperity by discouraging
  savings
• GIVE Power to the weak by
  weakening the strong
• HELP The employee by wrecking the
  employer
• FAVOUR Human fraternity by
  discouraging class war/struggle
• HELP The poor by ruining the rich
• AVOID Worries by spending more than
  what you earn
• FORM Character and will by
  discouraging initiative taking and
  independence
• HELP Continuously people by doing for
  them what they could do for themselves.

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NELSON MANDELA

• Inspiration, believe and faith can change the
  order of things. During his swearing in ceremony,
  Mandela recalled these words from Karl Von
  Clausewitz
• Some statesmen and Generals have tried to avoid
  the decision battle. History has destroyed their
  illusion .
• Nowadays, Mandela is rated as the greatest leader
  in Africa and one of the greatest living legends
  in world.

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MAHATMA GANDHI

• I am not a visionary. I claim to be a practical
  idealist.
• I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or
  woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would
  make the same effort and cultivate the same hope
  and faith.

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CONCLUSION

• These words allow me to conclude that creating
  enterprises is a risk, an adventure, but an
  exciting one. Venture capital is even a wilder
  adventure, an obliged passage for sustainable
  development of a continent, a country and above
  all, human being.
• In building a successful enterprise as in
  building a strong nation challenges and failures
  are inevitable, but we must capitalize and learn
  from those failures. We must set a new order for
  our country, for our enterprises, for our lives.
  We must dare. It is the only way for Africa to
  find its lost confidence, in a nutshell its
  dignity.

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CONCLUSION

• As we chart new paths in our economic endeavours,
  like our illustrious leaders Abraham LINCOLN,
  Nelson MANDELA, Mahatma GHANDI, we should do so
  impersonally and selflessly. We should be driven
  by the urge to do things because it is right to
  do so, and not because of our personal gains.
• As we get inspired to move ahead, we must
  believe, believe and believe that African
  Economic Development is possible as we truly
  capitalize on our failures we should remember
  that a downfall is only a false step that leads
  to a final victory without which there will be no
  glory. Whoever is afraid of failure is going to
  fail. Let us therefore dare as Venture Capital
  does, and success will follow.