STRENGTHENING THE POOR 10

A super machine of company broke down, and they brought engineers from various places to have it fixed yet it won't work, then an old roadside engineer came by and requested if he'll be granted permission to check the machine and fix it, the company acquiesced and ensured that the company's engineer were watching him. After he had inspected every part of the machine, he removed a particular nut, cleaned it and placed it back. He ordered that the machine be on, and bingo! It started working. When the company asked him to state the money he wished to be paid for his services, he wrote $10000. The Chief Engineer revoted having being informed that he only cleaned a certain nut to have the machine come back to life. He told him to itemize how the cost of fixing the engine would be that much. He wrote only two lines, first is, 'cleaning the Nut cost $5 and knowing what Nut to clean $9995.

The difference between the poor and the rich is simply, the rich knows what Nuts to clean the poor don't. Knowledge comes as a result of what each of them decided to train more. While the rich train their minds to work more than what they train their hands, the poor trains their hands more than they train their minds.
The difference is how educated the mind is; the poor man doesn't care about educating his mind to think better while the wealthy man feeds his mind with knowledge before working with his hands or employing more hands to effect the products of his mind.
An uneducated mind is blind and can't see opportunities and effective ways to achieve things while the educated mind is sharp and open to see opportunities even before they become opportunities.
An educated mind sees where the world is going and gets there first, they see what the society would need even before the society realizes that they'll need that, and they provide such and convinces the society to use it.
Hiring a smart mind cost more than hiring an hardworking hand.
To train the African child to be wealthy, encourage him to discipline his mind by working more with his head.
The hands are just tools for the mind, when the mind is neglected, the hands would work aimlessly without much result.
Think of ways to make things work, refuse to accept the traditional ways of doing things, discipline your mind to imagine better ways and then train your hands to become perfect in bringing the imagination to life.
Everything that exists today, every invention, innovations, decorations and services etc. first existed in someone's mind.
There is no limit to what the mind can make the hands to achieve, what the mind needs is more information and then it will provide directions for the hands achieve great things.

God bless you
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