"I love the grind from poverty to success," he said.
Countries who made the jump from poverty to success are those who include people in development, he says.
The family that surfs together, it seems, stays together, in poverty and success, wipeouts and comebacks alike.
According to their own stories, speaker after speaker detailed their family's rise from poverty to success in the space of a generation or two.
Mr. Parker is a cornerback for the Cincinnati Bengals, and his ascent from poverty to success lies at the heart of "They Call Me Sirr," a two-hour movie to be shown tonight at 8 p.m. on Showtime.
The ceremony capped the storybook rise of Mr. Chen, 49, whose intelligence and preternatural determination took him from mud-house poverty to success as a corporate attorney before he became involved, in 1979, in the dissident movement against the Nationalists' authoritarian rule.
NEW YORK, USA, 13 September 2010 – In the push to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS by 2015, as called for by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals – a set of internationally recognized targets for reducing poverty worldwide – success may depend on forging connections with young African women, so that they are able to protect themselves and their partners against the epidemic.
China, the greatest poverty-alleviation success story of the last generation -- 28 million Chinese people were lifted out of poverty every year between 1990 and 2008 -- barely participated in the MDGs.
On its 50th anniversary, we should embrace the War on Poverty's successes and learn from its failures.
There's sex, death, displacement, war, prejudice, power, gender, wealth, poverty, ability, love, success and happiness.
But in a nation of manifest poverty, the easy success of the privileged few does cause resentment.
