Board Quote by Lynn Johnston

“Poverty is the origin of invention”

— Sunday Adelaja

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

— Mark Kurlansky

I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

— Helena Christensen

Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.

— Loretta Lynn

We didn't know we were poor because that's how everyone around us lived.

— Eric Adams

“Poverty is the mother of invention”

— Sunday Adelaja

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent…

— John le Carre

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends,…

— Paul Harvey

“All human societies contain inventive people. It’s just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions, than do…

— Jared Diamond

America doesn't have poor people, they have temporarily embarrassed millionaires: meaning there are people who are poor for now but that's all about to…

— Neal Brennan

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

— William McDonough

We were what you would call a poor family, but we were rich in so many things. We did family things together. We always…

— August Wilson