Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The fear of being poor or broke is a blessing, if you are a successful entrepreneur; but is a curse, if you want to be an entrepreneur.”

“Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.”

“We generally outlive premature success and inherited riches.”

“Nobody is stopping you from using things such as your ability to read or hear as your definition of ‘success’ or ‘wealth’.”

“Some people get a lot of pleasure from sharing their success with those who were adamant that they would not or would never succeed, but get very little or even no pleasure from sharing their success with those who have supported them.”

“Being an ignoramus is not enough to prevent one from being famous.”

“Some of those who faked it until they made it are now faking not to have made it.”

“Life sometimes delays giving us the thing we are forever praying or working hard for, until it has managed to show us that that thing is not that important, or important at all.”

“Success stood in some people’s way of moving from being good to being great.”

“Most people have the tendency to delay helping or supporting someone, until their help or support is no longer needed.”

“Some people are rightly pitied by someone or people by whom they are wrongly convinced that they are envied.”

“Most biographies and autobiographies are each merely a slightly different packaging of the well-known fact that success rarely comes quickly or easily.”

“Only the steps of a one-step long journey can be taken all at the same time.”

“The second best thing to not chasing success is chasing success that was defined by you, not for you.”

“We cannot have, but can lose, everything.”

“While recovering from failure, the bitter find comfort, not in the phrase ‘This too shall pass’, but in their hope that ‘They too shall fail’.”

“A mere compliment has been the seed of some people’s downfall.”

“Money changes some people: Many a woman goes from being ashamed of being some poor or broke man’s girlfriend to being proud of being his girlfriend or even ex-girlfriend as soon as she realizes that he has become rich.”

“Most of our desires tend to reveal their pettiness a few months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, or even seconds, after they have been fulfilled.”

“Premature success rarely lasts as long as delayed success.”