The older I get, the more I realize that one of the most attractive traits is genuine enthusiasm. It's energizing to spend time around people who show real excitement for life. For people, ideas, and tiny moments. It takes courage to care so openly. Enthusiasm is contagious.
The reason wealthy people have a higher chance of succeeding in business is that they can afford to keep trying, failing, learning and trying again until something finally works. Most people only got one shot and if it fails they go bankrupt
The true measure for how wealthy a man is,is peace. It doesn’t matter how many businesses you run,if you cannot sleep at night with both eyes closed because of money,you’re not rich. You just have money. Thats why Marley said some men say they’re rich, but all they have is money
i'm in love with this quote:
"if you're persistent, you'll get it. if you're consistent, you'll keep it. and if you're grateful, you'll attract more of it."
Envious people are dangerous. They become awestruck by your life, then resentful that it is not theirs. DO NOT rock with anyone who shows even a hint of jealousy or comparison. They gotta go.
I think Lee Kuan Yew’s greatest insight to me was that corruption is not merely a moral failure but the OS upon which every other national failure runs.
If you cannot keep the government clean, or at the very least wage an uncompromising war against corruption and the misappropriation of public funds starting from the very top, the rot will inevitably spread through every layer of society. Policemen will demand bribes, immigration staff at the airport harassing travellers for bribes, businesses will budget for kickbacks, and citizens will come to believe that honesty is for fools. Corruption stops being an exception and becomes the culture.
Kenya is living proof of this. The disorder in the matatu industry is largely a corruption problem. The breakdown of public transport, chaotic urban planning, poor service delivery, stalled projects, inflated procurement contracts, and even the daily bribes paid on our roads are all branches of the same poisoned tree.
Keeping a clean government is not just about punishing a few dishonest officials. It is about reshaping the incentives of an entire nation. When people see ministers jailed, permanent secretaries dismissed, and the law applied without fear or favour, integrity begins to pay. Honesty becomes rational. Institutions become trusted. Citizens begin to emulate the standards set at the top.
That is why Singapore did not become clean because its people were somehow genetically more honest(infact Lee recounts them being just like any other third world population). Its people became more honest because the state made corruption expensive and integrity rewarding.
You cannot build a first-world country on third-world governance. Clean government is indeed the road that leads to every other transformation.
the REALEST people have superior pattern recognition skills, they are highly selective with their energy, conversations, and the people they allow around them. they have very few to no friends.
We are PRIVATE citizens, the government should know very little if anything about us at all.
They are PUBLIC officials, we should know damn near everything about what they are doing.
The cameras are pointed the wrong way.
The most difficult goals in life revolve around all the things that you can’t buy directly with money: a happy marriage, kids who love you, a healthy relationship with your parents while you still could, a confident mind at peace with itself, friends who actually care, talent that required decades of self-discipline to nurture, and respect for who you are and not from what you have.
Today as we marched to Parliament to lay flowers at the site where Kenyan Youth were shot dead, police violently dispersed us a few metres from the precincts of Parliament.
I pulled Rex Masai's mother, who was marching next to me into my vehicle as other mothers and victims found refuge in the few cars on site.
We drove away as police men pursued us.
We were guilty of one thing: peaceful demonstration and picketing as allowed by our Constitution in remembrance of these young heroes.
As a people, we shall not relent until we deliver justice and accountability for the victims.
#Ukombozi is nigh!
Titus Njari Ndei, 41, led Kitengela landlords to build their own private sewer line after years of sanitation problems in the fast-growing town.
With the population ballooning, property owners had relied on expensive septic tanks that often overflowed and posed health risks.
Frustrated by the Kajiado County Government’s failure to provide a lasting solution, the landlords decided to take action.
The push started in 2013 when the county sued 22 plot owners for discharging raw sewage, contrary to the Public Health Act. They were released on bonds of KSh 180,000–200,000.
Two months later, the accused landlords mobilized under Engineer Ndei and registered the Kitengela EPZ Neighbouring Community Sewer Project. They secured approvals from EPZA, NEMA, and other authorities, then funded a KSh 85 million, 45-kilometre, 2-foot-wide sewer line running to the Athi River EPZ trunk sewer.
The project was funded by hundreds of landlords contributing KSh 250,000 each plus a KSh 1,000 registration fee, and paying EPZA tariff fees ranging from KSh 7,500 to KSh 74,000.
The completed sewer now serves 818 landlords and has eased the burden of paying KSh 200,000 every 2-3 weeks to the county for waste disposal. Ndei says the community initiative gives residents a chance to manage sanitation sustainably.