- QURAN 45:12 (Bowing the Knee)
"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in MY house, and test ME now in this if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows..."
- THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY (MALACHI 3:10)
"For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have abundance..."
- JESUS CHRIST, an Israeli carpenter and teacher, also known as the "King of the Jews" (MATTHEW 25:29)
- SUDHIR RUPARELIA, Ugandan-born Property Baron (Forbes Magazine’s Richest Man in East Africa 2014)
"Be a yardstick of quality..."
- STEVE JOBS, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Apple Inc.
"Success is a challenge, failure is the formula. When you fail, you know that you are growing... Your network is your net worth..."
- PATRICK NGOWI, Helvetic Solar Contractors (Tanzania)
"People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live..."
- ROBIN LI, Chinese Businessman who beat Google in China with his Baidu Website
"There is no Happiness for man but to eat and drink and to be content with his work..."
- ECCLESIASTES 2:24
“The mortality rate of businesses in Uganda is high because of extravagance; no frugality whatsoever…”
– YOWERI MUSEVENI, Uganda’s longest-serving President since 26th January 1986 during the 2013 Inspire Africa, Entrepreneur Challenge
"Let us put our heads together and work...’’
- ALIKO DANGOTE, Nigerian regarded as the Richest African (controls much of Nigeria's Commodities Trade)
"There is a danger of getting excited over things and then you start making mistakes; Man is tested by gold and gold is tested by fire..."
- MARTIN DRITO, Madi-Okollo County (Arua) MP in a 2013 NTV Interview
"Children must be taught the ability to find problems, solutions and achieve results! If you do not do that, then the education has gone a mess..."
- PATRICK BITATURE, Ugandan entrepreneur
"Let us cast aside business forever, except for others..."
- ANDREW CARNEGIE, Scottish American steel magnate
"...as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously..."
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, one of the founding fathers of the United States in the 1700s
"Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times... I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature... Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity..."
- JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision..."
- HELEN KELLER
"You have to think anyway, so why not think big..."
- DONALD TRUMP
"Work is invincible..."
- LILIANE BETTENCOURT, L'Oreal's grand dame
‘‘Money should never be a measurement for anything...’’
- ASHISH THAKKAR, British National living in Dubai, UAE and referred to as the Youngest Billionaire in Africa. (He is founder of the pan-African multi-sector business conglomerate, Mara Group. A serial entrepreneur who started his first company at the age of 15, Ashish built a conglomerate of real estate, information technology and manufacturing with operations in over 26 companies and employing 7,000 people worldwide in less than two decades.)
“It’s not the employer who pays the wages, he only handles the money. It’s the product that pays the wages…”
- HENRY FORD
“Just do your work, forget the misery…”
- RUSSELL SIMMONS
“If we run our society as if pieces of paper (money) is wealth, then we are nuts. Humans are the wealth…”
- JEM BENDELL (The Money Myth)
“The way to find your Way in life is to ask GOD or the universe, ‘How can I be used?’…”
- OPRAH WINFREY
"I'm not somebody who believes in money sitting in deposits in bank accounts. When I make money, I reinvest it straight away in new ventures..."
- SIR RICHARD BRANSON, English Entrepreneur of the Virgin Empire - Trains, Planes, Mobile phones, Internet, Wine, Music and Holidays
“There is nothing for free. Work extremely hard to earn what you’ve got…”
- MZEE JOMO KENYATTA (Harambee!), the first President of Kenya in 1963
"If you begin with prayer, you will think more clearly and make fewer mistakes..."
- SIR JOHN TEMPLETON
"(A successful artist) knows how to manage risk. It's like dating a beautiful girl who is not in your league..."
- MAURICE KAWEEKWA, a very talented artist
"So many people have abused me that how can you go to St. Mary's College Kisubi and be a farmer?"
- JEAN (RWAMUKAGA) KAAHWA, AGCO Africa Agriculture Ambassador since 2014 and Managing Director Shalom Fish Farm Limited
"All the literature on mobile money was about the poor and the unbanked, but I saw it as a perfect solution for the SME as well. I decided to build the first mobile money-ready accounting system in the world..."
- FRANCIS OTIM, MYAccounts CEO
"Let money work for you, not the other way round..."
- ARSHAD (BHOLIM) AHMED, entrepreneur
"High thinking, simple living..."
- ANDREW MUHIMBISE, a Ugandan investor
"Work hard, it pays..."
- MARIAM TAISA
"I've worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions. In short, fate's distribution of long straws is wildly capricious..."
- WARREN BUFFETT, the 20th Century's Best Stock Market Investor
"Even the Tallest Tower started from the ground..."
- CHINESE PROVERB
"Better than the ignorant are those who read books; better still are those who retain what they read; even better are those who understand it; the best of all are those who go to work..."
- INDIAN PROVERB
