When our time is up we can only take with us what we have learned and experienced in our development in creating for ourselves and others.”By helping others we help ourselves

Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

When you fall down, rise up. When you fall again, rise up again. This is just a developmental process that makes a healthy baby become a successful man.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

It wasn’t science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

I’m not talking about being against development. I’m talking about the politics of development. I’m talking about more development, not less. More democracy, not less. More modernization, not less. How do you break down this...

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

As I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I’ll steal the light of day away to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

Keep it simple; complexities are the worst enemies of man’s development

Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of...

Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects...

Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.

Life’s journey is built of crests and troughs, the movement is always going to be fast only towards the trough and the progress is bound to be slow towards the crest.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

There’s a difference between thinking you can’t be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.

I used to be a bumper sticker kind of writer. Now I’m more developed, and my writing often takes up whole bumpers.

People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their...

Destiny is a right destination for every nation with a mission of destiny.

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

The crisis is a period in which a diseased social, economic, and political body or system cannot live on as before and is obliged, on pain of death, to undergo transformations that will give it...

Happiness gives you the freedom to enhance your ability to achieve success. Your choices in life are a direct reflection of your level of happiness. It’s the sunshine for your soul that you need in...

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, ‘God’s will is my delight.

This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic.

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required...

Because globalization and technology are different modes of progress, it’s possible to have both, either, or neither at the same time. For example, 1815 to 1914 was a period of both rapid technological development and...

Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.

Good” now is better than “Best” never.

Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.

Ujasusi ni kitu cha muhimu kwa maendeleo ya nchi yoyote. Watu wanaoshughulika na ujasusi wanapaswa kuwa makini mno kwani kazi yao ni nyeti sana kulinganisha na kazi za watu wengine. Kosa dogo la kiusalama linaweza...

Of course we’ll win. And even if we were to lose, we’d win at losing.

Piaget-….A stage then, we may say, is an integrated set of operational structures that constitute the thought processes of a person at a given time. Development involves the transformation of such ” structures of the...

Education is the use of knowledge which brings about development and impact many lives

It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

Our outer relationships are a mirror of the relationship and communication between our own inner male and female sides. Our outer relationships with a man or a woman are a possibility to understand our own...

It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion.

If life is a game, then the people who play in center with their own style only make the real name; but for others the aim is just the same for they do anything from...

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one’s own accord – it feels great – but...

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it’s a secret.

It’s not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas… The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people.

What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty...

Feedback is the breakfast of champions

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully examined, their morphological relations are never in discordance with the requirements of the...

Most economic histories of the “world” not only omit most extra-European production and exchange (even most of that outside West Europe or even northwest Europe); they neglect the participation of the productive and exchange activities...

Wake up with a purpose and make every effort to succeed. Many people spend their lives just going through the motions. They are satisfied with their daily routines or habitual lifestyles. Don’t be complacent with...

With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.

For the developing world, the past half-century has been a time of recurring hope and frequent disappointment. Great waves of change have washed over the landscape, from the crumbling of colonial hegemonies in mid-century to...