Ask not what your country can do for you
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Posted by Felix Okoli on March 17, 2009 at 02:16:24:
I believe that success begins with the will to succeed. A lot of people in our world, Nigerians inclusive have formed the habit of blaming the government for everything. People seem to be satisfied with blaming their failures on other people. When would we start blaming ourselves. In the US, for over many years some black people had formed the habit of blaming whites for their misfortunes and most of them end up involved in drugs, crime and all just to justify that belief. Perhaps, the real reason that people blame the govt for everything s because they have too much faith in them. Even in Nigeria, there are a lot of people who blame govt, a seemingly faceless being, for all their under-achievements and misfortunes. When a student doesn't get admission into the university, he blames the govt. When a graduate wanders for many years after school without getting a job, he blames the govt. When a civil servant keeps on receiving the same salary over and over again monthly, despite the rising costs of living , the falling naira, he blames the govt. Will negative thinking and blame trading get us anywhere. It was only when blacks in America started thinking positively and blaming themselves rather for their misfortunes that they started making fortunes. It is only the few Nigerians who believe in themselves rather than govt that are actually succeeding in Nigeria. Who really is the government?
We are the government, really, in the truest sense. Think capitalist rather than socialist. An economy run entirely by government would not be as successful as one run by capitalists.
If there is any thing we failed to achieve or lost, we should start by blaming ourselves first of all. Don't blame the white or black man for your misfortunes. Don't blame yur parents for your failures. Yes, blame yourself for not acting. We should stop asking what our country can do for us but rather, what we can do for our country.
Faced with the effects of a global recession and almost collapse of our capital market, i think it is time we started thinking inwardly rather than outwardly. After putting so much trust in stock analysts and advisers and seeing the rewards, perhaps, it is time we started doing a little analysis ourselves and investing only in what we know.
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I believe that success begins with the will to succeed. A lot of people in our world, Nigerians inclusive have formed the habit of blaming the government for everything. People seem to be satisfied with blaming their failures on other people. When would we start blaming ourselves. In the US, for over many years some black people had formed the habit of blaming whites for their misfortunes and most of them end up involved in drugs, crime and all just to justify that belief. Perhaps, the real reason that people blame the govt for everything s because they have too much faith in them. Even in Nigeria, there are a lot of people who blame govt, a seemingly faceless being, for all their under-achievements and misfortunes. When a student doesn't get admission into the university, he blames the govt. When a graduate wanders for many years after school without getting a job, he blames the govt. When a civil servant keeps on receiving the same salary over and over again monthly, despite the rising costs of living , the falling naira, he blames the govt. Will negative thinking and blame trading get us anywhere. It was only when blacks in America started thinking positively and blaming themselves rather for their misfortunes that they started making fortunes. It is only the few Nigerians who believe in themselves rather than govt that are actually succeeding in Nigeria. Who really is the government?
We are the government, really, in the truest sense. Think capitalist rather than socialist. An economy run entirely by government would not be as successful as one run by capitalists.
If there is any thing we failed to achieve or lost, we should start by blaming ourselves first of all. Don't blame the white or black man for your misfortunes. Don't blame yur parents for your failures. Yes, blame yourself for not acting. We should stop asking what our country can do for us but rather, what we can do for our country.
Faced with the effects of a global recession and almost collapse of our capital market, i think it is time we started thinking inwardly rather than outwardly. After putting so much trust in stock analysts and advisers and seeing the rewards, perhaps, it is time we started doing a little analysis ourselves and investing only in what we know.
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