Words of Wisdom: 8 Famous Quotes to Help You Embrace Fear and Achieve Success

When offering career advice to young professionals and entrepreneurs, the two things that always top my list are to find a mentor and to read voraciously. Throughout the course of my life, I have been blessed with multiple mentors -- mostly teachers, professors, bosses or colleagues. In addition, I have gathered useful advice from reading, and observing the actions of individuals who I identify as some of the world’s best leaders, both past and present. The following are 8 notable quotes from these “leaders” that have inspired me and helped to shape my principles as a business owner.

SOME WHERE IN LAGOS, NIGERIA

In the pasts days/weeks, I have read in the newspaper and gone through a number of social medias, the writings and reactions coming from some personalities like Chief  Femi Fani-Kayode amongst among many others about the act carried out by the Lagos State government in sending back some indigents back to their hometown/states. It is so sad seeing the response and reading the thoughts of some individuals who claim to be 'nationalist'. Chief Femi earlier asserted that the Igbo's should

Audacity Of Hope

I tag myself as being lost and weak, I can barely wake up or see things clearly. Life is funny to me as I have not fully understood what life really means and what it has for me. Oops! Did I just say life should have something for me, I guess right. This is why I say I'm still sleeping, in the bike or whatever. The fact be told, I don't think it's fair enough if you don't give life something and you expect something in return (feeling guilty as charged). But hold on, I have given life some things, though it might not be enough or up to standard, but I am trying. (Straight face).

Hmm, you might wonder, what might have gotten to me to have me put on this 'writing coat' which I have put off for a very long while...I have been living a boring life you might say, but I will say I