One day, I was traveling
from Lagos, Nigeria, to Johannesburg, South Africa,
and somebody pulled my
jacket from behind and greeted me. Wow! I could not
believe my eyes, It was a
man that used to come to my office to beg for
money, always complaining
that there is no job to do. He had been looking for
job but did not succeed. I
told him one day, there is job everywhere only
that you have not seen it.
I told him to take his eyes away from getting a
salary job, but
concentrate his thought on how to meet a human need. He
heeded that advise and
started selling scraps, now, he is so rich. He was on
his way to London for a
two weeks holiday when I saw him.
This world is so big and
full of resources that no man on earth can do
everything he needs to
make his life good and comfortable without needing
inputs from others.
Division of labour is a system that has helped this world
to develop tremendously in
the last two hundred years. It is very easy for
anybody to succeed in our
world today because all you need is to master an
art, and as long as this
art is going to add something of value to another
human being, then, you are
going to be successful. Succeeding greatly in life
does not demand that you
know everything, It only demand that you know
something, and since the
saying is true that no knowledge is wasted, you will
always find something good
to do with what you know.
