Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln suffered alot of trials, tribulations, challenges and defeat before he became the president of the United State of America in 1860. With determination, courage and believe in self, he was able to attain the greatest and highest medal in America, the Presidency.

The question was once asked of a highly successful businessman: “How have you done so much in your lifetime?”
He replied, “I have dreamed. I have turned my mind loose to imagine what I wanted to do. Then I have gone to bed and thought about my dreams. In the night I dreamt about my dreams. And when I awoke in the morning, I saw the way to make my dreams real. While other people were saying, ‘You can’t do that, it isn’t possible,’ I was well on my way to achieving what I wanted.” As Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the U.S., said: “We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.”

Most business owners or entrepreneurs complain about low sales, poor patronage and reduced profit in their business endeavours. Some even arrogate the blame of poor or reduction in sales to the government of the day, deteriorating infrastructures, insecurity, and inability to access bank loans, amongst others. While these could be partly responsible for reduction in turnover, the major reasons are the inability of the entrepreneurs/business owners to do the right things by taking their businesses more personal.

The roles an Entrepreneur plays amongst other known factors of production is key and non-negotiable. As the coordinator and brain behind other production agents, the entrepreneur’s major goal is to succeed in terms of making profit, expand and if possible metamorphose to a quoted company.
The reading of the best business books, listening to motivational conversations, attending business schools and dinning with business icons does not guarantee automatic business success.

The real reason why individuals or groups set up companies is to maximize wealth or satisfaction. So, setting up a company does not automatically result to profit making or revenue generation. Certain principles and steps need to be taken before the business objective could be achieved; any deviation from these principles or fundamentals, things might fall apart and the center (profit) might not hold again.

In a world of over six billion people, it is a known fact that the percentage of the wealthy to others (middle class and poor) is in single digit. A lot of factors have been deduced as responsible for the parity between the rich and the poor, but with these known factors, the gap is still increasing on a daily basis. In an effort to close the gap, it was discovered that the wealthy people in the society have some secrets and to make things more difficult, these secrets are hidden.
Some schools of thought believes that you must be born with a silver spoon before you can make it in life, especially in Nigeria, but contrary to this, a lot of people that are wealthy today were born into humble families, they rose to wealth through the secrets. In the same vein, non–provision of basic infrastructures like good roads, pipe borne water, security and electricity should not be given as reasons for not being wealthy, because a lot of indigent people had become wealthy even in the absence of these infrastructures. In the midst of the socio–economic and political challenges that confront Nigeria at any point in time, wealth are still being created by people in the country even without government contracts or appointments.
The fundamental hidden secrets of the wealthy people in any society are:
1. BELIEVE IN THE SUPERNATURAL