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Agriculture. Bamboo .

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

Whatever you do in life, do not lose your hardcore obsession.

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

laying bricks isn't mundane when you know you're building a cathedral

[SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst]

A salary makes you a living. Ownership builds wealth.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This sentence by Van Gogh hits hard:

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

the most unseen privilege in life, a supportive family.

[SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst]

Before you scale, prove that one customer returns without being begged. In Africa, repeat business is the cleanest data. It means trust has survived price, distance, doubt and competition

[ChiefHerbalist @HerbalistChief]

When you don’t have to worry about paying BILLS, you have time to THINK. That makes you extremely DANGEROUS.

The system is designed for us to never reach that level.

[SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst]

“Africa does not lack entrepreneurs. It lacks affordable credit, patient capital and honest systems. The founder who survives here is not lucky; they are building while carrying the weight of a broken market.”

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

The longer the game you play, the bigger the game you play.

[Russell Brunson @russellbrunson]

If you only act when certain, you’ll never create anything exceptional.

[CPA Wachira Joseph @WashiraX]

I went to visit my uncle this afternoon.

But he has really bashed me.

That my clock is ticking, yet I do not own a ranch.

He wondered where I take my money, and yet I do not drink.

I kept quiet the whole time.
Then he finally dropped the line I had been waiting for.

- Jitetee sasa. What is your excuse?

I immediately pulled out my phone. Opened my investment app. And handed it to him.
Then told him:

- Uncle, what you are looking at is my portfolio of shares in great companies. Nataka ifike mita siku moja.

He listened very keenly. I thought I was finally about to receive the legendary: Congratulations my son.

Instead, he leaned back. Looked at me. Then asked.

- That's OK. But what are stocks and shares in Kikuyu?

I had never thought about it. I froze.

He told me to take my time.

Eventually, I gave up. And told him to answer his own question.

He smiled. Then said.

- Stocks and shares do not have a name in Kikuyu or any African languages.
- The colonizers invented these fancy slogans to make brokies think they are becoming wealthy by accumulating papers and numbers on screens.
- Meanwhile, they themselves are accumulating the real assets.

I asked him: What are real assets?

He replied:
- Land.
- Animals.
- Plants and foods.
- Water bodies et al

Things you can actually touch. These are the things that create wealth.

Then he concluded with a sentence that has refused to leave my head.

• Every African man must own real assets.

Is the old man right or wrong?

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

“Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become.”

[Russell Brunson @russellbrunson]

Every expert was once clueless. They stayed in the game until they weren’t.

[JaPrado. @Dr_AustinOmondi]

Unless otherwise you will never get rich through employment. Start that business brother.

[Jonathan Said @JonathanSaid1]

The African continent doesn’t need more entrepreneurs. It’s full of them.

What it needs is a specific class of entrepreneurs called industrialists: business people who build value-adding firms in export-oriented job creating sectors, not rent capture.

[hello world @whiteTony99]

西方对中国最愤怒是中国把他们躺赚了几十年的暴利生意，一个个砸成了普通人都买得起的日用品。
这种愤怒已经刻进了很多西方人的骨子里，他们不是不理解，而是不愿意理解，不愿意接受自己再也不能躺着剥削全世界的事实。
二十年前，中国修地铁要用盾构机，全部从德国进口。一台盾构机德国卖3.5亿人民币，一分钱都不能少。买的时候还要签霸王条款，机器坏了只能找德国工程师来修。
德国工程师来中国一天的工资是3000欧元，换算成人民币当时是3万多。他们坐飞机必须坐头等舱，住必须是五星级酒店的总统套房。
维修的时候中国人不能在旁边看，必须全部离场，修完了直接开账单，换一个小小的密封圈就要10万人民币。
有时候机器出个小故障，要等德国工程师三个月才能来，整个工地几百人就只能闲着干等，每天损失几百万。
没有人觉得这有什么不对。全世界都默认，高科技就应该卖这么贵，德国人掌握了技术，他们就有资格赚这个钱。甚至放言给中国图纸也造不出盾构机。
但到2008年，中国第一台拥有自主知识产权的盾构机下线。当时德国人根本不在乎，他们觉得中国人造出来的肯定是垃圾，用不了几天就会坏。
结果中国盾构机不仅能用，而且价格直接开到了5000万一台。后来随着技术不断成熟，产量不断提高，现在一台国产盾构机只要2000多万人民币，价格只有原来德国的十七分之一。

德国盾构机的垄断神话一夜之间破灭了。原来全世界只有德国、日本、美国少数几个国家能造盾构机，他们联合起来维持高价，想卖多少钱就卖多少钱。
现在中国加入了，他们的价格体系彻底崩溃了。现在德国盾构机想卖出去，价格也只能降到和中国差不多的水平，再也不能躺着赚暴利了。
而这样的事在各个领域都不断的上演，套用足球解说的一句话，留给西方垄断的时间不多了。

[Russell Brunson @russellbrunson]

Entrepreneurship constantly asks: Do you trust yourself enough to keep going when nothing’s working yet?

[Chandana 🌻✨ @RoseOnX9]

Just watch one of these 10 movies.
If you care about money, power, and wealth, you need to see them. 🧵

[Tesh Mbaabu ™ @teshmbaabu]

In business (and life), there are prolonged periods when it feels like nothing is changing, and then everything changes at once 🚀

[Veloria 🌊 @veloriahq]

“𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘻𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵.”

— 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣