James 🇳🇬 🇴🇲 🇿🇦

I love ChelseaFC💙 Music🎶 Christopher Hitchens💥🧠📚 #Freethinker #IncorruptibleIntegrity 🇳🇬 🇴🇲

[James 🇳🇬 🇴🇲 🇿🇦 @UbahJames4]

Anticipating the new PREMIER LEAGUE SEASON AND NBA SESAON @warriors @ChelseaFC San Franciso 🇺🇸 here I come to watch steph curry play Basketball 🏀

[Percy @percyishim]

Billionaire, Tony Robbins explains why most people never build real wealth even when they live in a system full of opportunity.

“So IPhone has ran for 18 - 19 years. If you got an iPhone each time, you spend $22,000 and some change at retail price”

“But if you bought Apple stock, same amount of money on the stock you’d be up $326,000 instead of being out $22,000”

“If you’re going to use an Apple phone then at least own the company”

“What are they making a mistake of? They’re consumers not owners. We’re a consuming society and we train our kids to be consumers as well”

[KING CHIDI @guzu_p]

If every man had standards, women will know their place.

[Onyeka Nwelue @onyekanwelue]

Be careful how you spend your money. Because e go finish and everybody go disappear.

[Onyeka Nwelue @onyekanwelue]

One of the things you must remember to keep working for you, is to be stingy. Once people hear you have money, 100 people can come at the same time with 10,000 Naira problems and before you know it, you have finished giving out all your money because you think the request is small.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

You open your eyes in the middle of the night and this is what greets you...

[Ozedikus Nwanne @Ozedikus]

Being financially stable requires the selfishness to protect your money from the emergencies of other people

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are.

For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at the time - and probably still is - the most expensive undergraduate school in Europe (EHL in Lausanne, Switzerland).

Needless to say, many of my classmates were from unbelievably privileged backgrounds. Just in my classroom in Lausanne I had the son of a (very famous) Russian oligarch, the son of Italy's largest real estate developer and the son of Spain's largest real estate developer (funnily, the latter two were flat mates).

Another classmate of mine came from the richest family in Naples, Italy and - while we were at school - his father (known in Naples under the nickname "Il Sultano") got arrested for having bribed half of Naples's city council - which, if you know Naples, ought to tell you something.

These were the kids I was doing group projects on business ethics with (literally) 😅

Anyhow, my story, and probably my luck, was that - before going to high school in Paris - I was raised in very normal public schools in the South of France where my friends were anything but wealthy. Their parents were farmers and everyday workers.

Which means - and I'd come to realize this was very important in life - that it was easy for me to understand how big a mistake it is to see money as identity and meaning - and to confuse someone's net worth with their actual worth.

What really struck me at the time was the contrast with my "poor" classmates of earlier in my life. They couldn't define themselves by what they had - by definition - and this forced them to reach deeper for their identity: their skills, knowledge, humor, etc.

Rich kids can skip that entire process, and the tragedy is that most of them do: they reach for the readymade identity that money provides. I remember being incredibly frustrated by many of my classmates, like "ok, I get it, your dad is rich and you own a lot of nice things but who are YOU, what else is there?" The answer, more often than not, was nothing.

To be fair, there were exceptions. One of my classmates I was most impressed by came from one of Zurich's wealthiest families (which, if you know Zurich, means insanely wealthy) yet he was almost OCD in not showing he had money: driving the shittiest car imaginable, living in a small studio, etc. He was very intellectual, very contrarian, and clearly at war with the idea that his family's wealth ought to define who he was.

I only discovered who he actually was when I started my first company and he approached me to invest: to discuss the investment I went to one of his family homes, which it turned out was a literal palatial castle on the shores of Geneva lake. The guy had decided to live in a small rundown studio when he literally had a castle sitting empty a 5-min drive away.

THAT I was impressed by: it's easy to see that money isn't meaning when you don't have any. To see it when you have more than almost anyone - when everyone around you is organized around the opposite assumption - is much harder. But to actually live it, to choose the studio when you have the castle keys in your pockets - with no audience to applaud you for that - that shows real depth.

At the end of the day, I think, the real distinction isn't between rich and poor but between people who exist from the inside out and people who exist from the outside in.

Wealth just happens to make it incredibly easy to be the latter, to skip the work of becoming someone and settle for a borrowed identity that glitters from the outside but is hollow all the way through. A Potemkin village identity.

This is actually a real societal issue, and magnified by social media (with idiotic posts like this one 👇): the more "outside in" folks out there, the less people with genuine internal anchors, the more fragile everything becomes.

When you think about it, everything that genuinely matters in a society is built by people who think for themselves: they take the world in, pass it through something genuinely their own, and give back something that didn't exist before: an idea, a conviction, a stand.

Every reform, every invention, every act of moral courage in history came from someone with an internal anchor strong enough to resist the current. Remove those people and all you have left is the current.

This isn't new, by the way. Most ancient traditions warn against exactly this, from the Bible (the golden calf story) to Confucius, who built his entire ethics around the distinction between the exemplary person (the Junzi, 君子) - oriented around internal cultivation and righteousness - and the petty person (Xiaoren, 小人), oriented around profit and gain. The junzi builds himself from the inside, the xiaoren chases what's outside.

So please, do not make the mistake of being impressed by wealthy people flaunting their wealth. Don't focus on the glitter, focus on the hollowness it's trying to hide.

[Praise George @praisegeorge]

I detest every inch of Lagos, and in extention Nigeria.
Banana island is a glorified slum.
Nothing you give me in Nigeria will satisfy me.
I detest the ENVIRONMENT.

What is the use of having a mansion in an environment where there is zero security?

I was ready to live in Accra, Lusaka, etc, ANYWHERE ELSE but Nigeria.

I detest the very air itself; polluted by the death fumes from thousands of generators.

Have the rich measured the toxicity of the air in Lagos?
They haven't.
Living in poison, calling it enjoyment.
Fools.

There is absolutely NOTHING attractive about banana island.
It is a glorified slum.

Good environment, good quality of life, health care, security is better than having a mansion in banana island.

Lagos kills you slowly.
The environment itself is toxic.

A man with a two bedroom apartment in Netherlands will live longer and better than one who has a mansion surrounded by slums.

Quality of life is better than having a lot of material things but dying slowly.

Choose a good environment.
You will live long.

A Nigerian will choose a big house over health, security, good environment. Nigerians do not value high quality life.
Having cars, houses and money is more important to them than living in an environment where they will live well and live long.
No wonder Caucasians have higher life expectancy than Africans.

[Onyeka Nwelue @onyekanwelue]

When people are taking from you, they really don’t care. They just want to take.

[Onyeka Nwelue @onyekanwelue]

A million dollars can vanish overnight. Save your money. Or hide it.

[James 🇳🇬 🇴🇲 🇿🇦 @UbahJames4]

@ClintKalaz @D_obalola @AramideOyekunle @Kareem_Ogb

[James 🇳🇬 🇴🇲 🇿🇦 @UbahJames4]

@NBA Too Strong and good for OKC, Wonderful Team. Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐

[James 🇳🇬 🇴🇲 🇿🇦 @UbahJames4]

Congratulations SAN ANTONIO SPURS 👏 🙌 ❤️ #nba #okc

[James 🇳🇬 🇴🇲 🇿🇦 @UbahJames4]

We are almost there SPURS #NBA

[James 🇳🇬 🇴🇲 🇿🇦 @UbahJames4]

OKC vs SPURS. #nba game 7 let's Go SPURS

[Paris Saint-Germain @PSG_English]

🏆 BACK 2 BACK 🏆

[Gaffer @Thee_Makoso]

@TheBlueDodger

[Aji Bussu Onye Mpiawa azụ 🇨🇮 @AfamDeluxo]

Almost every day in America, I meet older Nigerians who have achieved everything they set out to achieve in America. They've built careers, raised families, and secured their futures. Many of them would love nothing more than to return home and spend their later years in Nigeria, but insecurity and the state of the country make that dream impossible. It genuinely breaks my heart.

[James 🇳🇬 🇴🇲 🇿🇦 @UbahJames4]

@onyekanwelue Hahahaha wahala

[James 🇳🇬 🇴🇲 🇿🇦 @UbahJames4]

@ak4njii @koladeafolabi20 @CryptoDefiLord What about mutual funds proof?