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Friday, April 7, 2017

EFCC discovers about N.5bn hidden in a shop

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos zone, Friday uncovered yet another large sum of suspected laundered money to the tune of N448,850,000 (Four hundred and forty eight million, eight hundred and fifty thousand naira) only in two of the shops at a Plaza, in Victoria Island, Lagos. According to the EFCC, the money stashed in several bags popularly called ‘Ghana Must Go’ were in N500 and N1000 denominations, hidden in the shops and awaiting conversion into foreign currency.

Relying on information provided by a concerned whistle blower, operatives of the Commission swooped in on the shopping complex and sought the identity of the owners of the two shops, LS 64 and LS 67 which were under locks and keys.

The shops had signage of Bureau de Change. Inquiries about the owner of shop 64 indicated he had not been seen for a long time, as they claimed the shop had not been opened for business for close to two years. Several calls were put to the owner of shop 67 but there was no response. The attention of the plaza’s chairman and some traders were drawn in order to force the shops open. There was no money found in shop 67, but in shop 64, heaps of “Ghana Must Go” bags were found loaded on the floor of the shop. When the bags were unzipped, they were found to contain bundles of naira notes totalling N448,850,000. Traders interviewed at the premises claimed they were not aware such money was housed in there, as the place hardly opened for business. The Commission is investigating the matter in order to unravel the owner and source of the money.

TWENTY 25 YEARS MARRIAGE ANNIVERSARY AND PRESENTATION OF A BOOK

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TWENTY 25 YEARS MARRIAGE ANNIVERSARY AND PRESENTATION OF A BOOK. Friends I'll like to specially invite you to our 25 years marriage anniversary thanksgiving and presentation of a book, "BEYOND HONEYMOON". Please friends come and join us to thank God for keeping us one, united, strong, healthy, peaceful and still counting these 25 years. It has been God all the way. Date: Wednesday 19th April 2017.
Venue: Unity Square, Opposite Police Nkwoagu Isuochi Abia State, Nigeria.
Time: 11 am prompt.

Top 100 Money Quotes of All Time

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Great quotes encapsulate big ideas in few words. They inspire, motivate, and encourage in a memorable way. On my podcast, I cover all aspects of building wealth, including interviewing authors, investors, and business owners who have achieved great success. In that spirit, I've assembled the top 100 quotes about money.

Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like. --Will Roger
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. --Jonathan Swift
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. --Epictetus
Money often costs too much. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each. --Christopher Rice
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. --David Feherty
Frugality includes all the other virtues. --Cicero
I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too. --Steve Martin
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. --Benjamin Franklin
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy. --Warren Buffett
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. --Charles Dickens
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. --Thomas Edison
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us. --Julia Cameron
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for ten years. --Warren Buffett
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. --Yogi Berra
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. --Benjamin Franklin
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. --Jim Rohn
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. --Ayn Rand
Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this. --Dave Ramsey
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. --Seneca
It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages. --Henry Ford
He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. --Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. --Franklin D. Roosevelt
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. --Norman Vincent Peale
It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. --George Lorimer
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. --Maya Angelou
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing. --J. Paul Getty
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. --Henry Ford
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. --George Bernard Shaw
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. --Robert G. Allen
I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. --Malcolm Forbes
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. --Steve Jobs
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. --Anonymous
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. --P.T. Barnum
Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. --Jack Benny
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. --Henry David Thoreau
The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. --Ben Graham
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. --Thomas Jefferson
You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. --Dave Ramsey
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. --Paul Samuelson
Every time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self. --Nathan W. Morris
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. --Zig Ziglar
Never spend your money before you have it. --Thomas Jefferson
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. --Phillip Fisher
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. --Benjamin Franklin
It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for. --Robert Kiyosaki
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. --Thomas A. Edison
If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it. --Kim Garst
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. --Steve Jobs
The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind. --T.T. Munger
Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.” --Joe Biden
If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. --Vicki Robin
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. --William A. Ward
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. --Winston Churchill
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. --Charles Caleb Colton
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. --Albert Einstein
It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. --Vince Lombardi
It's not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that's important. --Zig Ziglar
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. --David Brinkley
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. --Roger Babson
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. --John Wayne
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. --Mahatma Gandhi
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. --Mark Twain
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. --J. K Rowling
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. --Bruce Lee
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. --Dale Carnegie
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. --Ayn Rand
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. --Robert Kiyosaki
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. --Steve Jobs
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. --Abraham Lincoln
Screw it, Let’s do it! --Richard Branson
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it! --Jonathan Winters
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. --Zig Ziglar
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. --Henry Kravis
As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. --Donald Trump
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. --Vidal Sassoon
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. --Winston Churchill
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. --Benjamin Franklin
If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. --Chris Guillebeau
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. --Lao Tzu
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. --Oprah Winfrey
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. --Theodore Roosevelt
The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. --Warren Buffett
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. --George Soros
Persist – don’t take no for an answer. If you’re happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you’ll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years. --David Rubenstein
If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we’d have a pretty average record. It wasn’t hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor. --Charlie Munger
When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? --Rene Rivkin
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks. --John Bogle
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. --Abraham Lincoln
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. --Eleanor Roosevelt
The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’ --Sir John Templeton
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. --Pablo Picasso
Fortune sides with him who dares. --Virgil
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. --Arthur Schopenhauer
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. --Edmund Burke
No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself. --Plato
My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil. --JP Getty
The best thing money can buy is financial freedom. --Me

46 Inspiring Quotes on Money and Wealth

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Making money and creating wealth is one of my weakest areas – knowledge wise – when it comes to self-improvement.

So I thought it would be useful for me – and hopefully for you too – to put together a list of some of the best quotes on wealth and money that I have come across.

I especially like the ones by William A. Ward, Benjamin Franklin, Gandhi and the last one by Henry Ford.

This is 46 motivating and sometimes funny, sometimes thought-provoking quotes on money and wealth from the past few thousands of years. I hope you’ll find them as helpful as I have.

“Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.”
William A. Ward

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Seneca

“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Ayn Rand

“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shuts down for ten years.”
Warren Buffett

“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
Erich Fromm

“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
Jim Rohn

“The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went.”
Unknown

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
Zig Ziglar

“It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end.”
Billy Idol

“It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.”
George Lorimer

“I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.”
Robert Bosch

“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.”
Kahlil Gibran

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Money is like muck—not good unless it be spread.”
Francis Bacon

“It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.”
Henry Ford

“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”
Ben Franklin

“I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.”
Warren Buffett

“Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.”
Gandhi

“I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.”
Malcolm Forbes

“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
Edmund Burke

“When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.”
Artemus Ward

“The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.”
Unknown

“Know what you own, and know why you own it.”
Peter Lynch

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.”
Maya Angelou

“Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.”
James W. Frick

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
Oscar Wilde

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
Jim Rohn

“Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing.”
J. Paul Getty

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
Henry Ford

The world is full of people looking for quick money and wealth, especially in this age of information technology and instant gratification. There is nothing particularly wrong with that, but too often we miss the mark in our quest for wealth and material possessions and fall short of what we truly desire in life. Here are powerful quotes and words of wisdom from some of the greatest thinkers and achievers in history that will inspire your heart and mind for true wealth and happiness in life.

FKJ Motivational Quotes for Work

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Great businesses aren’t born overnight. Instead, they require consistent, committed effort to succeed – which means that you’ve got to find a way to maintain your passion over the long-run. Whenever you encounter doubts creeping into your mind, read through the following motivational quotes for work and reference the categories that are appropriate to your unique needs:
Goal Setting
Whether you’re still in the planning phases of your business or whether you’re plotting a plan of attack to bring about your long-range vision, setting good goals is a critical part of succeeding in business. Check out the following quotes for extra inspiration on how to turn your business dreams into reality:

“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”–Benjamin Mays

“By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own.”–Mark Victor Hansen

“Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.”–William J. Bennett – The Book of Virtues

“The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer… He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.”–Robert L. Schwartz

Excellence in Work
Once you’ve got your goals together, you’ll need to put in 110% of your effort in order to transform these visions into reality. To increase your motivation to work at a consistently high level, take a look at the following words of wisdom:

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”–Aristotle

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”–Charles R. Swindoll

“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal — a commitment to excellence — that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”–Mario Andretti

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”–Pearl Buck

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”–Vince Lombardi

Determination and Persistence
Since every business or other endeavor is bound to hit some rough patches, it’s often a person’s level of determination and patience that brings about either success or failure. Read through any of the following motivational quotes for work related to determination whenever you need an extra boost of encouragement:

“Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems.”–Paul J. Meyer

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”--Hal Borland

“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”–Calvin Coolidge

“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.”–Thomas Fuller

Leadership
Leadership is an important quality for businesspeople to possess, whether you use it to run your own company or simply to motivate others to follow your unique way of thinking. To boost your skills in this area, take your cues from the following renowned leaders and their most famous sayings:

“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.” –Warren G. Bennis

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”–John Kenneth Galbraith

“Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people’ — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”–Peter F. Drucker

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”–John Buchan

“High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”--George Orwell

Success
Think of success as a holistic process – one which results from the combination of goal-setting, excellence, patience, determination and leadership you prioritize throughout your business career. The following quotes from famously successful business people reflect this reality, providing an excellent source of motivation for whenever you feel your spirits lagging:

“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”–Stephen Covey

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”–Norman Vincent Peale

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”–Winston Churchill

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”–John Maxwell

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.”–– Thomas J. Watson

“The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building.”–Robert Collier

“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”–Arnold Toynbee