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Greg Mortenson is an American professional speaker, writer, veteran, and former mountaineer. He is a co-founder and former executive director of the non-profit Central Asia Institute and the founder of the educational charity Pennies for Peace. Mortenson has been accused of financial irregularities in handling donations to the CAI and falsehoods in his books. In 2012, Mortenson repaid $1 million to the CAI after an inquiry by the Montana Attorney General, though no criminality was found.

Mortenson is the co-author of The New York Times Bestseller, Three Cups of Tea, which stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 220 weeks. Three Cups of Tea has been published in 47 languages. Mortenson is also the author of Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

✵ 27. December 1957
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Famous Greg Mortenson Quotes

“When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.”

Greg Mortenson

Source: Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

“In times of war, you often hear leaders—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—saying, ‘God is on our side.’ But that isn’t true. In war, God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans.”

Greg Mortenson

Source: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

“You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.”

Greg Mortenson

“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”

Greg Mortenson

Source: Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

“What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

Greg Mortenson

Source: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

“Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu”

Greg Mortenson

Source: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

“And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains”

Greg Mortenson

Source: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

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