I spent the first decade of my life in a remote village in Nigeria where nobody talked about money. Everyone goes to the farm and wait for the harvest period. I was later moved to a town when I was around 11. There, people talked about money. But what do they say about it? Well, all they said about how to make money and how to become a millionaire centred on luck, good jobs and hard work. If you…
I grew up in a polygamous family, and I grew up seeing my parents’ attitudes toward life and the outcome they all got. While my stepmother, mother and father were all poor, my mother seemed always to have better financial growth than the other two people.
One reason for this is that my mother is a great saver. I don’t know anyone who can keep money better than her, and that made her life better. I don’t know how many…
In 1986, a child was born. He was a boy; His parents are of African origin. His life took a drastic turn for the worse when he started falling sick almost every two weeks. He suffered pain from sickle cell anaemia and to make matters worse; his poor parents were illiterates who couldn’t afford to take him to a good hospital to know what exactly was wrong with him. Born into extreme poverty, in a remote village that seemed…
Just 30 years ago, the single most important thing you needed to do for you to become successful was to find a mentor or read their books, learn from the people who have achieved what you want to achieve to avoid the mistakes they made which will; as a result, help you to succeed faster.
About 16 years ago, I read a book written by Brian Tracy, and there was a quote in that book which goes like, “If it’s going to be, it’s up to you”. While there are so many factors in human life which are beyond our ability to control, there are some which could determine where we end our lives.
It’s no longer news that I love books. Everyone who follows this channel knows that by now. What many may not know is that biographies are by far my favourite books and this is because reading the stories of how some of the most successful people in the world achieved what they achieved is by far the best way to get inspirations that can propel you to achieve greatness in life.
I started my first major business when I was 15 years old. It was the most exciting period of my teenage years, and that’s because I wasn’t taking it seriously. It was just a hobby that gave me money, and that’s what business should be.
Today, I see so many teenagers who think they are too young to start a business, and I wish to speak some sense into such young people. That’s what this video is all about.
In the city where I live, just like most cities of the world, there are three types of neighbourhoods; the extremely poor neighbourhoods, average neighbourhoods, and rich neighbourhoods. While many people who live in the average neighbourhood tend to be normal people who work some jobs and try to put their heads together, most people who live in the rich neighbourhood are middle-class individuals who think they are rich
Lao Tzu allegedly said, “Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
At the middle of the year 2007, I went on a visit to my only brother. He’s older than me with more than a decade, and he treated me like his child. Little did I know that the good days for our relationship was about ending his Television set was the reason for it.
Couples of months before he died, Steve Jobs ordered Venus, a superyacht to be built for him. The cost was to be whooping one hundred million euro. One hundred million euro is a lot of money for a guy who wears one cloth every day and very often, the poor and the middle-class use this kind of spending as an unconscious excuse to spend the money they don’t have.
Sometime last year, I was having a conversation with a friend who works for the federal government of my country. In his opinion, his life would be better if he could only earn the kind of money his boss at work was earning.
I knew that his life wouldn’t be any better because I was earning far more than the amount he dreamt of earning and I know that it will be super easy for him to waste even the…
Zig Ziglar said, “Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.” But that doesn’t answer all our questions so let’s look at another question; how do you discover an opportunity?
I may not be able to give you a simple formula to discover a million-dollar opportunity, but I know some questions that can help you find new opportunities. They are; where is the world going? And how can I be there first?
Sometimes ago I read a story of a king who wanted to give his daughter in marriage, but there was a condition, and that condition was; the man who would marry the king’s daughter must be willing to jump to a swimming pool filled with crocodiles. If you are courageous enough to jump into a swimming pull filled with crocodiles and you’re strong enough to swim through the pull alive, then, the king will trust that you’re a man…
Several years ago a 13-year-old boy went to his father and said, “Dad, I want to be a soldier”. His dad looked at him and asked, “Why do you want to be a soldier?” “Soldiers are highly respected,” said the young boy. His father laughed and told him, “Soldiers went through hells too”
Just two days ago, someone called me to congratulate me for something and while he was talking he said, “I want to thank God for your wife too because it’s not easy to live with someone as strange as you are”. I tried to convince him that I’m not in any way strange, but he won the argument by saying that nobody knows himself enough to know who he is.
I run a media company but whenever I want to tell people what we do I look for the right words to explain but never get any because what most people know as a media company has always been; Print media, Radio or Television, even though the real media has moved from those old channels.
When I started reading about 17 years ago, my favourite books were self-help books. I loved self-help books then because they made me believed in myself (which was the exact thing I needed as a young guy judging from the fact that I experienced one of the worst situations you can ever imagine).
By now you know that I love books and one of the reasons why I read a lot of books is because I have no degree. Dropping out of school in the year 2008, I knew that I would have to read, study and learn a whole lot of things most people do not know if I will ever have any chance of success in life.
As a father of two kids, I often find myself asking, “What advice would I give my children at age 10? What books would I get them to read before age 17? What would I tell them at age 20?”