“Its okay to be poor since poverty is a temporally state but never okay for a poor person to keep poor friends, the best among friends is one that adds value to your life not subtract, a good friend should be an Asset not a liability.”
Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, P.58 (July 2018)
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