Capital in your business isn’t what matters. It isn’t the money that buys you a future; it’s your skills that buy you a future. Money and no skills, I’m telling you, you are still poor. Money and no ambition, where are you? Money and no courage, you’re broke. A little bit of money and a whole lot of courage is all we need.

The other day a friend of mine approached me excitedly, saying, “I found the house of my dreams. It’s in foreclosure and the bank will sell it to me for a great price.”

“How good is the price?” I asked.

“Just before the real estate market crashed, the seller was asking $780,000 for the property. Today, I can buy it from the bank for $215,000. What do you think?” she asked.

“How would I know?” I replied. “All you’ve given me is the price.”

“Yes!” she squealed. “Now my husband and I can afford it.”

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, and some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

After all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:

This year the world’s youngest billionaires are a little older–and a lot poorer.

The world’s youngest tycoons may have sprouted a few gray hairs over the last year.

Amid the global recession, the Forbes list of the World’s Billionaires is smaller–and poorer–this year. As a result, the tiny club of billionaires age 40 and younger just got a whole lot smaller too. Last year, the world’s 20 youngest plutocrats were all under the age of 36. In 2009, their ages range from 25 to 40. The average age of the world’s 20 youngest billionaires is 35 this year, up from last year’s average of 32. The average net worth of billionaires age 40 and under is $2.9 billion, down 30% from last year’s average of $4.1 billion.

All flights to the inauguration of president-elect Barack Obama as the 44th president of the world, is fully booked, but as Africans when there is a will there is always a way. whether by land, air or even sea we will make it there, Yes we can! and we are coming with our extended families - the African way!
As Obama himself has admitted that the task ahead is an enormous one, and he will be introducing some stimulus to the economy while shading off some excess stuffs.