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50 STATEMENTS THAT CAN INSPIRE YOU TO BECOME AN ENTERPRENUER.

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No one ever said it was easy being an entrepreneur. Whether you’re in the early stage of your start up, just secured funding for your startup or you are ready for product launch, there will always be those three components when you ask yourself if this whole entrepreneur thing is worth it. Instead of giving up and throwing-in the proverbial white towel, keep your head up and look to the following 50 quotes to inspire and motivate you during those tough patches.

“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today, the true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
“To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.”
“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game’s winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that’s why I succeed.”
“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”
“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
“If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
“Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
“There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.”
“The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.”
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
“If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.”
“Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.”
“Always deliver more than expected.”
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.”
“You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.”
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
“Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
“It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.”
“If you don’t know what to do with your life, do something that saves lives. The world is full of people in need, be the part of their life that fills that need.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“I hate how many people think, “glass half-empty” when their glass is really four-fifths full. I’m grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.”
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
“For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.”
“Fail often so you can succeed sooner.”
“We are currently not planning on conquering the world.”
“Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”
“The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that’s how long it’s going to take, guys.
“When you cease to dream you cease to live”
“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
“Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.”
“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.”
“It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.”
“Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.”
“If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”
“I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.”
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Bonus: You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react

Use a few of these quotes for a mantra, carry a hard copy of this list in your pocket, but remember, you have to find inspiration where you can and be the inspiration for yourself.

Which one did u like? Comment below. #not original.

By: Aloyce Mkwizu. Blogger and Entrepreneur.

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SONNET: THE SHORTER THE BETTER.

On second thought,
Worth knowing,
The shorter the better.

Short people, smart people,
Short people, wise people,
Short people, rich people,
The shorter the better.

Short life, more fun,
Short life, less pain,
Short life, less stress,
The shorter the better.

More short things to come,
Even life itself is short,
No wonder me also.

By: Aloyce Mkwizu.

Quote of the day.

Life is too short to be anything but happy. By Unknown.

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THE BEST THING ABOUT AFRICA.

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BY: ALOYCE MKWIZU.

It has come to my concern that most writers, bloggers and even journalists have been always delivering negative views about Africa. Most of them have forgotten the famous proverb that says “In every bad thing, there is something good in it” and the vice versa also being true. They have forgotten that Africa is the mother continent from were all developed countries have found their riches. They have forgotten, or may be out of their own ignorance that the people of Africa (African’s) have the highest degree of hospitality, kindness, love and many other positive values that can be assimilated by oneself.

So many uncountable good things about Africa yet this honest continent has been negatively branded by media throughout the world in which in the scale of truth, it is all a lie. Nothing God as ever created is 100% perfect, even Africa itself, but how the world views Africa is more irritating even to write. The one who said Africa is a dark continent came during the night and left the continent before sunrise. His words are totally fake.

Not even a single country in Africa leads in poverty, bad leadership (dictatorship), ignorance, corruption, terrorism, civil wars and bad democracy and the links below this article can prove the later statement. But when the above mentioned happens even once in Africa or in particular countries it becomes a life time story and sometimes even exaggerated. The continent is affected by diseases only because of its geographical location (tropical climate) which favors most disease causing organism.

No one talks about world successful leaders that owe their origin to Africa. No one talks about the tourism attractions present in Africa. Even 1 of the 10 wonders of the world is in Africa but I bet if the majority knew this. There are full of Africans doing good in music, sports, leadership and innovations worldwide but they have shorter biographies in the internet than porn artists of the western countries. Nothing is wrong with Africa. Most of the countries attained their independence between 1950’s and 1990’s so you can’t compare them with developed countries which attained their independence more than 200 years ago some of them even not being colonized. Most of the western countries during their first 50 years of independence weren’t even successful compared to some countries in Africa but they still brag that Africa is underdeveloped. It is a big lie trying to become the truth. Africa is still developing, it only needs a few years 5 or 10 probably to show the world that it is also a place to be.

My perspective is that, it is high time for everyone especially Africans themselves to brand this continent positively for the betterment of human race and the future at large.

“Tough times never last but tough people do.”Robert Schuller.

Thanks.

Send this message to all Africans and non Africans telling them Africa is a place to be and that you are proud to be an African. By: Aloyce Mkwizu.

Inspired by PLO Lumumba and Akon.

The above links show that Africa is not the only place where problems exist. Problems are everywhere in the world and some places not in Africa it’s even worse.

Mt.Kilimanjaro. — 4th largest mountain in the world.

A SONNET: BAD IS SOMETIMES GOOD.

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BAD.

A bad life is better than no life,

A bad plan is better than no plan,

A bad school is better than no school,

A bad experience is better than no experience,

A bad food is better than no food,

A bad service is better than no service,

A bad parent is better than no parent,

A bad progress is better than no progress,

A bad job is better than no job,

Bad is bad, nothing is worse,

Tough times never last,

I don’t need to prove,

What am utterly sure is,

Bad is sometimes good.

By: Aloyce Mkwizu. Poet and Entrepreneur.

Quote of the day.

Tough times never last but tough people do. By: Robert Schuller.

Just when the caterpillar thought that the world is over it became a butterfly. Proverb.

9 things you should avoid in 2018.

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2017 has gone and today is the first day in 2018 and i have got a list of the 10 things you should avoid this year so as to make the most of it. We all know that 2018 is the eraser of all our mistakes done in 2017 so don’t waste the rubber and start moving to where you are supposed to be.

Procrastination. Don’t avoid things that you have planned to do. Procrastination is a habit of losers. Those who procrastinated in 2017 and planning to procrastinate in 2018 have a great chance to procrastinate forever.
Stress. Stress kills. Stress affects your healthy. Stress is an imagination which one can control by self.
Negativity. Avoid being negative. Turn problems into challenges. Always be positive. You can not have a positive life in a negative mind.
Hate. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
Regret. Past is past. Even regret can’t change it. Focus on the present while preparing for the future.
Fear. The two major fears are fear of criticism and fear of death. If you avoid these two your road to success is much brighter.
Laziness. Work hard and become a leader, be lazy and never succeed. He who does not work shall not eat.
Ignorance. Martin Luther King once said “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” First learn then earn.
Over caution. 2018 is the year you have to take risk because the biggest risk is not taking any risk. Successful people have always been saying that you can’t get anywhere in life without taking risks. At least they have been there to give the testimony.