“It is okay to fail, but it is not okay to not know when you are failing. You need to know when something is going wrong and what is causing that very thing to go wrong.”
Source: HowWeMadeIt
“Visualize your past victories while visualizing and anticipating future victories. Planting the seeds of positive expectancy in your mind is the best way to reap.”
Source: Forbes
“Our people (staff) must be able to grow. They have clear career paths, clear KPIs, clear incentives. We set stretch targets but share all information necessary for them to achieve these targets.”
Source: MoneyWebInvestor
“Discipline, hard work, sacrifice. Success does not come on a platter. You have to work hard to be successful. You have to be disciplined and you have to make sacrifices. In addition to being creative, these are things you must have.”
Source: AfricanBusiness Magazine
“As an entrepreneur you have to be a dreamer. You got to have vision, you got to have passion and belief in yourself that you can do it.”
Source: HowWeMadeIt
“You have to ask ‘what if I try this, and what if I try that and how would the business operate if I changed that?’ All those are the types of questions you have to keep asking yourself as an entrepreneur.”
Source: MoneyWeb
“For me the biggest business lesson I have learnt so far is the strength of networking and collaboration. Without working with other people in the industry, things would have taken much longer to get off the ground.”
Source: HowWeMadeIt
“You’ll find that many business have acquired funding in order to access these markets but that cost (of corruption) was not factored in. So they refuse to engage in corruption, and this often delays the process by a much longer time, and in some cases it has led to businesses failing. However, if companies can stick it through and find a way to make it work, the rewards of being in those markets can be very big.”
Source: Moneyweb
