For many years, the idea of going into ventures for quick gains had unnoticeable effect on the mindset and self acknowledgement of a typical poor Nigerian within my immediate community. We behaved and acted in so many acceptable thought patterns which ought not to be. The saying goes, " Do not seek quick money". The common perception is that which states " too good to be true". That is, when the profit margin tends so good that it doesnt correlate with the hidden difficulty of making money registered in people's mind, we assume and believe that such venture cannot be true and real, that we are in the verge of loosing money.
I grew up in the small community of Gbakpo in Bako. A town where little existence, little substance was substantial enough. It reminds me of subtleness of deriving importance from your comfort. Where there is no compettition. Where a local champion thinks he or she is so good at what he or she does until one is exposed to the variation in the larger world where such efforts and skills seem unskilled, not valuable, not noticeable, not special. Where the champion becomes an amateur in the midst of real chapions.
This was my plight of living in a neighbourhood where a little or almost no achievement was perceived as momentous success, almost compared to Donald Trump's election success in becoming POU.
People worked so hard to make little money, and that believe became so strong that to make money one must work so hard and think less. Thinking, strategizing became attributed to laziness. This fusion drove the idea of quick money as a limited way to make money, a scam and fraudulent means of making money from those who also abused the concept of increased success through speed and use of machines with less effort.
The world has changed, even in areas of finance. There is bound to be easier ways of achieving human success and meeting human needs with less and lesser efforts, including making money.
As I grew older I read, I saw, I learnt and discovered that the richest, the billioners are actually driven by quick money. They built systems to push in the money in quick sucessions.
The most important element was cash flow. And I asked myself, " how then do we speak against quick money". I realized and noticed that those who think that quick money is bad are actually poor people, who work hard but think that money ought to be difficult in making it, therefore one must work so hard in order to.
I discovered that only the rich are interested in making money quickly. Look at these names, Warren Buffet, Bill gate, Slim, Richard Brownson and Blyden Ukem. Do we look like people are not interested in quick money? Quick money is the rich mentality and not for lazy people. I noticed that everyone who kept complaining about systems designed to help people make money quicker than they are actually can are poor in mindset. When next someone asked you if you want to make quick money, tell them a big "YES" and look at such people realizing who they are- poor people, men who settle on
