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Maintain peace among your colleagues and partners.
Do not be ignorant of fraudsters, think very careful and ask questions before entering into any business you have not done before.
Do not be afraid of risks because life is all about risks, and risk-takers are great achievers.
Do not try to make money the fast way because if you do, it will go fast and may ruin your life.
And may I say this, unbudgeted expenses lead to borrowing, borrowing leads to indebtedness and indebtedness leads to business failure. That is why you must be careful about how you spend your money.
Add a concept: Develop your own personal concepts, add flavor to your business. You can still do business as other people do, but your personal concepts make your pattern different from others. I will give just one example. There is a woman in the Delta state of Nigeria who makes a living by roasting yams in the front of her house. In her street are eight other women who roast yams for a living. One day, this woman had a quarrel with one of these neighbors. Her neighbor called her a poor woman, told her that she would die in that poor business. As for her, she was going into a better business. She responded and told her neighbor that, with that poor, yam-roasting business, she would pay for her children’s university education, buy land and build a house. A few weeks after the quarrel, customers started coming: people would drive up, park their cars and book servings of yam before they were done. We wondered about that. Little did we know that she had added a concept. What was her concept? After buying yam, she would buy two bags of salt and soak them together in a big drum, adding a small quantity of water. After seven days, she would dry the yam in the sun for five days and then get it ready for roasting.
Avoid pride: Please friends, do not cut your coat according to your size, but according to the size of the material. Run away from pride; pride is an overestimation of oneself. It will make you place yourself in a level beyond your own, thereby making you the most miserable of all men, especially when you are expected to do something and can‘t. You will squeeze yourself and even borrow to do it and then go home to cry and die of hunger and indebtedness. Give respect to the elderly ones and to children; greetings matter a lot. Be truthful and honest in whatever you do. By doing this you will gain credibility for yourself. Do not feel too big to learn from children who have what you need. Don’t feel shy to say, “Please teach me,” because someone must teach you what you don’t know, regardless of their age and gender. If it means humiliation and insults, absorb them, get what you want and then walk away. Have a good mentor.
Think positive: Think positive; don’t think negative. Do not have an underdeveloped mind; have a rich and developed mind. Be versatile because versatility will make you have more than one means of income. But do not be a jack-of-all-trades and master of none. Don’t just wish for something; start doing it now. Do not wait for your uncles’ and aunties’ promises or cast blame on them for not helping you. You can succeed without their help. Blame yourself where you fail and learn from your mistakes. Believe in yourself and say to yourself, “I can make it, come what may.” Do not wait until you graduate from a higher institution; do not wait until you get hundreds of thousands or millions before you start investing. Start with the little you have because time does not wait for any person.
Cut off any relationship or friendship that will not contribute to your success in life. May I also say this: you don’t need academic qualifications to succeed in life, and these are not the criteria for success. You only need education to upgrade your knowledge. You are not inferior. You are special in your own way; so reject the inferiority complex and do not be intimidated by people of high class or anything. Any time you get intimidated, you are defeated.
Finally, change your thought pattern, always package yourself very well and dress well. The way you dress speaks volumes, and people read meaning into it. Always look and smell good. Make friends with people you will learn from and not just people who learn from you. Don’t wait any longer. The best time to start is now. You are destined to excel. Always pray to God, give to God’s work and have faith.
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PRINCE C.J. BENJAMIN
Prince C.J. Benjamin is a 25 year old man from Abia state in Nigeria. He is into eradicating poverty and extreme hunger and combating cybercrime. He is the founder of the COALITION FOR ERADICATION OF POVERTY, an NGO.
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