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room to grow.
No not for yourself, you selfish cod fish, for the people around you and for building the country.
If you get a million dollars, then invest it in someone who is 21 years old that has a good idea.
Give a hundred thousand to a new orphanage. “100k?” you say. Yes, that much.
Stop thinking of a new ML Mercedes and think of someone else. You are nowhere near Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg so keep building, keep giving, and get two nice Toyotas and leave it at that.
Let the Jones do what they do and then you do what you want to do. I reiterate you will never arrive!
This is especially true if you are a Zimbabwean. With an economy of seven or so billion dollars no one in Zimbabwe can stop and relax. We are still in nursery school compared to the First World.
A number of people thought they had made it a few years back then bang the economy changed overnight.
Remember that finance is a poor source of personal security in this day and age. It helps but it is not the ultimate haven.
Entrepreneurs, drive an old second- hand truck until they are 35. Invest the rest into new ideas.
You do not really need a boat. If you are working for a company that pays you six figures, live off a quarter, and invest the rest.
If you make a good deal, then give some of it back. One of my clients is renting space in a building that was sold for far in excess of its market value (a few million in excess).
The caretaker of the building, with over 30 years of service to the company and the building, was paid              US$3 000 in gratuity.
This was a well-calculated gratuity in terms of the law. However, for a company that just came into millions that had to be the saddest example of failure to appreciate faithfulness.
Absolutely no one should be retiring. Give your advice to the next generation. Hold free tea parties at your house for people in their 20s who have ideas.
Seth Godin does it and there are very few people as cool as him in the country. Mentor people, give away an hour a week to build up a worthy individual (or individuals).
Stop thinking about the monetary value of the time you give away! Think instead of the value you are putting into the lives of people.
Selfishness will kill our nation. Covetousness will kill our nation. Living for “the image” will kill our nation.
If all you do or if all you ever dream of is improving your life and your personal fortune then do the nation a favour and please find somewhere else to do it.
Think bigger and be bigger. I am not talking about fostering a donor mentality or a “gimme gimme” attitude in the lives of those you give to (I loathe beggars as much as you do), but about enhancing the lives of others. One of my business partners was struggling with the strain of supporting an extended family, six extra school fees and a funeral a week is no joke. Their solution was to build a family business. Now if a family member wants school fees paid they come to work, earn a good salary and contribute to society.
What would it take for running water to be supplied at your rural home? How can you partner with the community to make it happen in a sustainable manner?
Ignore those who want to jump on the publicity bandwagon, if you are looking for publicity every time you give then examine your motives again.
If that is too big a project then look at the bottom of your garden and examine the state of your servant’s quarters, and while you are there examine how much you are paying them.
Why don’t you try live off that for a month and see how far you get. Please do yourself a favour. Never fold your arms.
Never think that you have made it. Don’t drive the latest top-of-the-range vehicle that depreciates the minute you drive it off the floor.
Invest more then you live on. If you fly business class you better be earning more than five figures.
Honestly, just how big does your house need to be? Yes enjoy life, but give back. Give to your church, community and school. Stop greeting young entrepreneurs like they are stupid. Respect them, help them and don’t take their ideas away. Let them become better and richer than you.

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