13/03/2015
A Tool kit to fight Ulova (Part 2)
People with business savvy and a good idea, starting a business can outweigh the benefits of attending college. Many billionaires including Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg did not hold college degrees when they founded their companies. These entrepreneurs have created job opportunities for their countries. They have reduced the unemployment and poverty rates. It was their attitude that mattered not luck.
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity,” I have heard these words several times from our Vice-President Right Hounarable Saulos Chilima. To get to your goal, you need a pathway than can take you to your goal. It is not a matter of passing through the university but
letting the university pass through you. Seeing other people around you succeed should motivate you, even if they are your competitors.
My friends always complain that I ask too many questions when I meet a person who is running a successful business or failed to continue. And my answer is permanent, “It is my business to see the business side of every business on planet as my business. Don’t worry I mind my own business and that’s the side of my business attitude”.
For instance, one day I met a young man who sells roasted ground nuts (mtedza okazinga) in Limbe township. I was very interested to know his business side .He told me that he charges MK20 per kitchen "spoon-full" and every day he nets K 2,500. That`s equivalent to MK75, 000 per month which is the salary for my good friend, John, an Economics graduate who is an office worker in town. .... ...