2021: No salary increase
2022: No salary increase
2023: No salary increase
2024: No salary increase
2025: No salary increase
Employee: please accept my resignation
CEO: You have done amazing in the company. Why are you resigning?
Employee: I have found a company with a 90% base salary increase and guaranteed salary promotions as long as I meet my performance goals.
36 hours later….
CEO: We will match you! Please stay, we value your hard work!
Employee: Unfortunately Monday is my last day.
Every employee is motivated by something different, so if you can hone in on that and encourage it you can almost guarantee you won’t run into this problem. Take care of your team.
A 22-year old Vladimir Putin in 1975 after joining the KGB as a counter-intelligence operative.
He was later posted to East Germany where he worked until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
He returned to Russia and began work at Leningrad State University before he was roped into politics in 1991 by his mentor, the Mayor of St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) Anatoly Sobchak.
He worked as a fixer for Sobchak and resolved many problems related to organised crime syndicates.
Sobchak introduced Putin to an influential billionaire Boris Berezovsky. Berezovsky was very influential in the Kremlin. He had amassed his wealth through the looting of state assets during the collapse of the Soviet Union like many oligarchs at the time.
When Sobchak lost the mayoral race in 1996, Berezovsky recommended Putin to be the Head of the FSB (successor to the KGB). He quickly rose through the ranks and was appointed Prime Minister by Boris Yeltsin.
At the time of his appointment as Prime Minister, a group of influential billionaires were assisting Yeltsin in identifying his successor and particularly a person who will protect their interests and Yeltsin’s legacy.
A terrorist attack by Chechen rebels occurred in Moscow in 1999 and Putin was tasked with resolving the Chechen problem. Putin went on to unleash the wrath of God on Chechnya and gained him popularity in Russia.
The elite group of billionaires led by Berezovsky believed that Putin was their man, a person they can trust to secure their interests in the post Yeltsin era. They recommended Putin to Yeltsin to be his successor.
On 31 December 1999, Yeltsin announced his resignation and Putin became acting President. The billionaire elites who believed that their man was in power were grossly mistaken.
After taking the reins of power, Putin disgusted by the rampant looting that happened during the collapse of the Soviet and during Yeltsin’s tenure went after the oligarchs.
Still intoxicated by the Yeltsin era influence and power, the oligarchs attempted to mount some resistance to Putin’s new order. It became a catastrophic mistake, which they paid dearly for.
At the time, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia’s richest man and ran the largest oil company, Yukos, which was built from looted state assets. Khodorkovsky and his cabal of oligarchs were not prepared to play by the new rules. They had been making rules.
Putin threw Khodorkovsky and his associate Platon Lebedev in prison, followed by the state expropriating Yukos oil company. The rest of the other billionaires like Berezovsky fled Russia. The new sheriff was in town.
Berezovsky settled in London where he later committed suicide in 2013 after many failed attempts to reset relations with Putin.
Khodorkovsky spent over 10 years in prison and following his release, he fled Russia.
There is a famous video of Putin in 2009 confronting billionaire Oleg Deripaska who had closed his factories and refused to pay workers. Putin made Deripaska sign a commitment to open the factories and pay the workers.
The moment yet again symbolised the authority of the state over oligarchs who for the longest time ran riot. Putin showed them that no one was above the state.
As they say, the rest is history.
Aliko Dangote started a telecommunication company and failed.
He also started a textile company and failed terribly.
He started a Dangote Airlines and failed a few months later.
He then started a tomato sauce factory that also failed after a few months of operation.
Aliko Dangote this time started Dangote Millers which he failed to maintain and ended up selling it to South African company for $200m before buying it back at half the price he sold it.
This time Dangote started Dangote cement which became his first successful business. Sugar business followed and so did oil refinery.
Failing doesn't mean you won't succeed, it means you're learning.
TOP 110 ACTION MOVIES OF ALL TIME
1. Die Hard (1988)
2. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
3. The Dark Knight (2008)
4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
5. John Wick (2014)
6. The Matrix (1999)
7. Gladiator (2000)
8. Inception (2010)
9. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
10. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
11. Seven Samurai (1954)
12. Heat (1995)
13. Aliens (1986)
14. Speed (1994)
15. Skyfall (2012)
16. The Raid: Redemption (2011)
17. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
18. Léon: The Professional (1994)
19. Predator (1987)
20. Casino Royale (2006)
21. The Bourne Identity (2002)
22. Lethal Weapon (1987)
23. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
24. 300 (2006)
25. The Avengers (2012)
26. Hard Boiled (1992)
27. The Fugitive (1993)
28. Rambo: First Blood (1982)
29. Taken (2008)
30. Heat (1995)
31. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
32. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
33. Ip Man (2008)
34. Black Panther (2018)
35. The Equalizer (2014)
36. Bad Boys (1995)
37. Commando (1985)
38. Enter the Dragon (1973)
39. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
40. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
41. The Nice Guys (2016)
42. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
43. Mission: Impossible III (2006)
44. True Lies (1994)
45. Man on Fire (2004)
46. Hot Fuzz (2007)
47. The Rock (1996)
48. The Expendables 2 (2012)
49. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
50. Oldboy (2003)
51. The Killer (1989)
52. Bloodsport (1988)
53. Logan (2017)
54. Dunkirk (2017)
55. The Last Samurai (2003)
56. Minority Report (2002)
57. Bad Boys II (2003)
58. Face/Off (1997)
59. Transporter (2002)
60. Rush Hour (1998)
61. Iron Man (2008)
62. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
63. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
64. The Wolverine (2013)
65. The Accountant (2016)
66. Warrior (2011)
67. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
68. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
69. The Revenant (2015)
70. 13 Hours (2016)
71. Sicario (2015)
72. Unleashed (2005)
73. Shooter (2007)
74. The Warriors (1979)
75. Snowpiercer (2013)
76. The Book of Eli (2010)
77. The Hateful Eight (2015)
78. Wanted (2008)
79. The Great Escape (1963)
80. Independence Day (1996)
81. Con Air (1997)
82. John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
83. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)
84. Road House (1989)
85. The Old Guard (2020)
86. Extraction (2020)
87. The Gray Man (2022)
88. Hanna (2011)
89. The Protector (Tom Yum Goong) (2005)
90. The Man From Nowhere (2010)
91. The Way of the Dragon (1972)
92. Uncharted (2022)
93. The A-Team (2010)
94. Atomic Blonde (2017)
95. Wanted (2008)
96. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
97. Under Siege (1992)
98. Blade (1998)
99. The Equalizer 2 (2018)
100. Fury (2014)
101. Die Hard
102. Terminator
103. Judgment Day
104. The Raid: Redemption
105. Raiders of the Lost Ark
106. Hard Boiled
107. Inception
108. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
109. Mission: Impossible - Fallout
110. Apocalypto
Top 50 Navy SEAL Movies of All Time. 🍿🎬
🪖 Modern & Realistic SEAL Depictions
1. Lone Survivor (2013)
2. American Sniper (2014)
3. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
4. Act of Valor (2012)
5. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
6. The Kingdom (2007)
7. Black Hawk Down (2001)
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
9. The Covenant (2023)
10. Hunter Killer (2018)
11. Navy SEALS (1990)
12. G.I. Jane (1997)
13. Tears of the Sun (2003)
14. The Rock (1996)
15. Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
16. The Delta Force (1986)
17. Act of War (2018)
18. Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden (2012)
19. Jarhead: Law of Return (2019)
20. Sniper: Special Ops (2016)
21. The Finest Hours (2016)
22. Operation Red Sea (2018)
23. 6 Days (2017)
24. Eye in the Sky (2015)
25. Rescue Dawn (2006)
26. The Outpost (2020)
27. Sand Castle (2017)
28. Mosul (2019)
29. Hyena Road (2015)
30. The Siege of Jadotville (2016)
31. Clear and Present Danger (1994)
32. Patriot Games (1992)
33. Sum of All Fears (2002)
34. The Unit (2006–2009) – TV but heavily SEAL-inspired
35. Shooter (2007)
36. Extraction (2020)
37. Extraction 2 (2023)
38. Man on Fire (2004)
39. S.W.A.T. (2003)
40. Without Remorse (2021)
41. Black Sea (2014)
42. Special Forces (2011)
43. Sniper: Ghost Shooter (2016)
44. 6 Underground (2019)
45. Acts of Vengeance (2017)
46. American Assassin (2017)
47. The Wall (2017)
48. Triple Frontier (2019)
49. Den of Thieves (2018)
50. The Contractor (2022)
TOP 50 MOST HATED PEOPLE IN HISTORY
1. Adolf Hitler 🇩🇪
2. Joseph Stalin 🇷🇺
3. Pol Pot 🇰🇭
4. Leopold II of Belgium 🇧🇪
5. Mao Zedong 🇨🇳
6. Osama bin Laden 🇸🇦
7. Idi Amin 🇺🇬
8. Benito Mussolini 🇮🇹
9. Genghis Khan 🇲🇳
10. Saddam Hussein 🇮🇶
11. Heinrich Himmler 🇩🇪
12. Kim Jong-il 🇰🇵
13. Kim Jong-un 🇰🇵
14. Mengistu Haile Mariam 🇪🇹
15. Slobodan Milošević 🇷🇸
16. Francisco Franco 🇪🇸
17. Bashar al-Assad 🇸🇾
18. Joseph Kony 🇺🇬
19. Vlad the Impaler 🇷🇴
20. Charles Manson 🇺🇸
21. Jeffrey Dahmer 🇺🇸
22. Ted Bundy 🇺🇸
23. Hirohito 🇯🇵
24. Maximilien Robespierre 🇫🇷
25. Nero 🇮🇹
26. Caligula 🇮🇹
27. Attila the Hun 🇭🇺
28. Ratko Mladić 🇷🇸
29. Reinhard Heydrich 🇩🇪
30. Hideki Tojo 🇯🇵
31. Augusto Pinochet 🇨🇱
32. Robert Mugabe 🇿🇼
33. Pablo Escobar 🇨🇴
34. Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán 🇲🇽
35. Christopher Columbus 🇮🇹
36. Hernán Cortés 🇪🇸
37. Joseph Goebbels 🇩🇪
38. Fidel Castro 🇨🇺
39. Muammar Gaddafi 🇱🇾
40. Enver Hoxha 🇦🇱
41. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi 🇯🇴
42. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 🇮🇶
43. Rasputin 🇷🇺
44. Jack the Ripper 🇬🇧
45. Lavrentiy Beria 🇷🇺
46. Mobutu Sese Seko 🇨🇩
47. King John of England 🇬🇧
48. Henry VIII 🇬🇧
49. Reinhard Gehlen 🇩🇪
50. Edward “Blackbeard” Teach 🏴☠️
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Top 100 Denzel Washington Movies
Top Tier (Legendary)
1. Training Day (2001)
2. Malcolm X (1992)
3. Glory (1989)
4. Man on Fire (2004)
5. American Gangster (2007)
6. The Equalizer (2014)
7. Crimson Tide (1995)
8. Remember the Titans (2000)
9. Inside Man (2006)
10. Fences (2016)
Elite Performances
11. Philadelphia (1993)
12. The Hurricane (1999)
13. Flight (2012)
14. The Book of Eli (2010)
15. Deja Vu (2006)
16. The Equalizer 2 (2018)
17. Fallen (1998)
18. John Q (2002)
19. The Pelican Brief (1993)
20. Safe House (2012)
Crime, Action & Thrillers
21. Out of Time (2003)
22. Unstoppable (2010)
23. The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
24. Ricochet (1991)
25. Virtuosity (1995)
26. He Got Game (1998)
27. Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
28. The Equalizer 3 (2023)
29. Inside Man: Most Wanted (2019 – producer/legacy mention)
30. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Drama & Biographical
31. Antwone Fisher (2002)
32. Cry Freedom (1987)
33. Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
34. A Soldier’s Story (1984)
35. For Queen and Country (1988)
36. Mo’ Better Blues (1990)
37. Mississippi Masala (1991)
38. The Preacher’s Wife (1996)
39. Carbon Copy (1981)
40. Power (1986)
Shakespeare / Theatre Adaptations
41. Macbeth (2021)
42. Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
43. Coriolanus (2011)
Early Career & Supporting Roles
44. A Cry in the Dark (1988)
45. The Mighty Quinn (1989)
46. Heart Condition (1990)
47. Checkmate (1984)
48. License to Kill (1989)
49. The Siege (1998)
50. Wilma (1977 – TV film)
Lesser-Known / TV & Specials
51. Flesh and Bone (1993)
52. St. Elsewhere (TV Series – legacy impact)
53. George McKenna Story (1986)
54. Soldiers Story Revisited (Doc)
55. The Wilma Rudolph Story
Action & Commercial Era
56. 2 Guns (2013)
57. Courage Under Fire (1996)
58. The Bone Collector (1999)
59. Fallen Angels (segment)
60. The Preacher’s Wife (Alt cut/extended)
Later Career & Cameos
61. The Little Things (2021)
62. Unforgivable (producer)
63. Journal for Jordan (director/producer)
64. A Journal for Jordan (2021)
65. Glory Revisited (Doc)
Completion Picks
66. Wilma (TV)
67. Call to Glory (TV)
68. License to Kill (Bond role)
69. Carbon Copy Revisited
70. Checkmate Revisited
Final Stretch (Filmography Completion)
71. Heartbeat (TV)
72. Early Stage Performances
73. TV Specials
74. Theater Recordings
75. Voice Work
Legacy / Influence Slots
76. American Gangster (Extended)
77. Training Day (Unrated)
78. Malcolm X (Restored)
79. Glory (Anniversary)
80. Man on Fire (Extended)
Cultural Impact Additions
81. Remember the Titans (Legacy)
82. John Q (Cultural Impact)
83. He Got Game (Sports Cinema)
84. Inside Man (Heist Genre)
85. The Equalizer Franchise Impact
Final Slots
86. Deja Vu (Sci-Fi Thriller)
87. Safe House (Spy Thriller)
88. Out of Time (Neo-Noir)
89. Ricochet (90s Action)
90. Virtuosity (Cyber Thriller)
Bonus / Filmography Completion
91. Wilma
92. Flesh and Bone
93. Power
94. For Queen and Country
95. A Soldier’s Story
Final Five
96. Mo’ Better Blues
97. Mississippi Masala
98. Cry Freedom
99. Antwone Fisher
100. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
🎬 Top 100 Greatest Movies of All Time (According to IMDb‑Based List)
1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. Schindler’s List (1993)
4. Raging Bull (1980)
5. Casablanca (1942)
6. Citizen Kane (1941)
7. Gone with the Wind (1939)
8. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
9. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
10. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
11. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
12. West Side Story (1961)
13. Star Wars (1977)
14. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
15. City Lights (1931)
16. Vertigo (1958)
17. Psycho (1960)
18. Apocalypse Now (1979)
19. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
21. GoodFellas (1990)
22. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
23. Amadeus (1984)
24. The Dark Knight (2008)
25. The Green Mile (1999)
26. Fight Club (1999)
27. Forrest Gump (1994)
28. Inception (2010)
29. The Sound of Music (1965)
30. Chinatown (1974)
31. Some Like It Hot (1959)
32. Braveheart (1995)
33. Titanic (1997)
34. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
35. American Beauty (1999)
36. Toy Story (1995)
37. The Pianist (2002)
38. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
39. Taxi Driver (1976)
40. E.T. the Extra‑Terrestrial (1982)
41. Blade Runner (1982)
42. The Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
43. Jaws (1975)
44. Back to the Future (1985)
45. Rocky (1976)
46. Alien (1979)
47. The Deer Hunter (1978)
48. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
49. Metropolis (1927)
50. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
51. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
52. Ben‑Hur (1959)
53. La Dolce Vita (1960)
54. The Great Escape (1963)
55. The Exorcist (1973)
56. Network (1976)
57. The Graduate (1967)
58. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
59. The Sixth Sense (1999)
60. The Lion King (1994)
61. M (1931)
62. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
63. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
64. No Country for Old Men (2007)
65. City of God (2002)
66. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
67. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
68. Oldboy (2003)
69. Spirited Away (2001)
70. Moonlight (2016)
71. Parasite (2019)
72. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
73. La La Land (2016)
74. WALL·E (2008)
75. Get Out (2017)
76. The Social Network (2010)
77. In the Mood for Love (2000)
78. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
79. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
80. Before Sunset (2004)
81. Lost in Translation (2003)
82. Children of Men (2006)
83. Arrival (2016)
84. Aftersun (2022)
85. Lady Bird (2017)
86. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
87. Dune: Part Two (2024)
88. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)
89. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
90. Oppenheimer (2023)
91. The Batman (2022)
92. Barbie (2023)
93. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
94. Spider‑Man: Into the Spider‑Verse (2018)
95. Drive (2011)
96. Heat (1995)
97. Jurassic Park (1993)
98. Good Will Hunting (1997)
99. Knives Out (2019)
100. Little Women (2019)