Afam's Notes

A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert like island. The two survivors, not knowing what else to do, agree that they had no other recourse but to pray to God. However, to find out whose prayer was more powerful, they agreed to divide the territory between them and stay on  opposite sides of the island. The first thing they prayed for was food. The next

 “I slept and dreamt that life was joy, I woke and saw that life was duty. I acted and behold, duty was joy.”

My mates are getting married. My mates are getting good jobs. My mates are succeeding. My mates are living overseas. My mates are buying cars. ... My mates are building houses. My mates are this......my mates are that......

Reported by Zina Moukheiber and Mfonobong Nsehe, with additional reporting from FORBES AFRICA, Christopher Helman, Chase Peterson-Withorn and Katia Savchuk. Edited by Kerry A. Dolan with Abram Brown and Luisa Kroll The Richest Man in Africa: Aliko Dangote For the first time in the four years that FORBES has been tracking Africa’s richest, Nigeria bests South Africa.

1. My character is more important than my talent 2. Failure is nature’s plan to prepare me for great responsibility 3. Failing is not the worst thing in the world, quitting is 4. It is better to more reliable than brilliant 5. Only a life lived for others is worth living 6. The best thing I can do for my fellow human beings is to love them 7. Opportunity does not stay too long, so I should make the best use of each day 8. The value I place on others is largely a function of the value I place on myself 9. Being successful is not necessarily being first or the best at something, when I give all I’ve got and I’m satisfied with what I got at the end, then I am successful 10. If I must succeed, I should give extra effort and push myself beyond my normal limit 11. A very cheap way to make friends is to be interested in what concerns them 12. If I risk nothing and do nothing; I will eventually have nothing and become nothing 13. Until I respect my own time, I can never respect ot...

-Note the world’s best computer Gurus in number 1, 2 & 6 and the newly added 11 (1) Bill Gates The Harvard Crimson called him "Harvard's most successful dropout" — the rest of the world just calls him ridiculously rich. For more than a decade, Bill Gates has been one of the wealthiest, if not the wealthiest, men in the world. The son of an attorney and a schoolteacher, Gates entered Harvard in the fall of 1973, only to drop out two years later to found Microsoft with childhood friend Paul Allen. In 2007, more than thirty years after he left Harvard, the co-founder of Microsoft