ABOUT KILIAN

About Me:

Kilian Kamota is an accomplished managerial professional with more than ten years experience of working in for-profit and non-profit organizations in Tanzania and the United States. His background includes expertise in multi–unit operations management, multi-million dollar P&L management, project planning & development, facility management,  customer relations & satisfaction, human resources management, vendor sourcing & negotiation, risk management & inventory control, as well as food, labor and  marketing cost control. Currently, Kilian work as an Assistant Manager for a well-established financial institution. Before joining this financial institution, Kilian worked as a banking Officer at Keybank Headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio. Keybank is one of the largest banks in the United States with approximately $87 billion of assets, 1,068 full service branches and a network of 1,620 ATMs. Kilian has also worked a senior accountant for Eliza Bryant Village NGO in Cleveland, Ohio between 2009 and 2011. Kilian has a Bachelor degree in Accounting and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio.

Kilian is a seasoned manager and a transformational leader who believes that organizations do not exists to make money but to serve their clients, employees and stakeholders and meet their needs. Profits and financial gains should always be secondary to service and excellence. Kilian leadership experience have created a passion for surpassing financial and service objectives via a combination of world class service delivery, lean operating methods,  renewed marketing directions, and incentive driven rewards for team achievement. Kilian derive genuine pleasure from transforming high-potential staff into outstanding leaders while demonstrating the creativity critical to financial and operational success. Kilian understands how to and the importance of leadership succession plan – how to train, prepare and transform employees into future managers and leaders. Kilian is a charismatic and creative leader who knows how to utilize the art of differential diagnosis to analyze different challenges in order to come up with relevant solutions. He has creative leadership skills with an uncanny ability to see things from a different perspective and come up with fresh, innovative thinking and new ideas to respond to new organization challenges. Kilian is a disciplined man of character who understand that leadership is about skills and character. Skills are what leaders do while character is who the leader is. Character is the foundation of a leader. A disciplined and hardworking leader will create a disciplined and hardworking team. A disorganized and incompetent leader will create a disorganized and incompetent team. Kilian understands the difference between leading and managing and is flexible enough to know when to manage and when to lead. Kilian will not only become a key team player in the organization but also an asset that appreciate in value with time and an important part of the future of the organization.

Kilian believes that leadership is paramount when it comes to organizational efficiency and economic development, and is currently conducting a thorough comparative research of different leadership paradigms in order to draw lessons that can be utilized to help nurture new approaches to leadership and governance.  Kilian has written several articles on areas of leadership, management and governance and is currently writing a book called Tanzania: The Next 50 Years. The book explores leadership challenges in Tanzania; and the type of leadership that is required, in the next 50 years, to lead Tanzanians to reach their new objectives.

 

ABOUT TANZANIA

Kilian was born in Tanzania -East Africa.
Below is Dar es salaam - The Capital city of Tanzania

The picture below show village tribal men in Tanzania called Maasai.

Tanzania is also known for having very nice beaches, beautiful animals in Serengeti and Ngorongoro, the highest mountain in Africa -Kilimanjaro and very nice hotels.

The beach in Dar es salaam

Animals in Serengeti National Park

Mount Kilimanjaro

Serena Hotel in Dar es salaam

Zanzibar Beach

 African Models in Tanzania

MY STORY

Early Years

Kilian Muya Kamota is a son of the late Mr. Athuman Muya Kamota and Mrs. Christina Innocent Hatia. Kilians’ father is a Zigua from Mgombezi Korogwe in Tanga-Tanzania and his mother is a Makua from Ndanda, Masasi-Mtwara. The Kamotas’s are Zigua’s who migrated from Handeni-Tanga and settled in Mgombezi Korogwe. Kilian is a great grandson of Mwenye Hatia who was Chief of the Makua Tribe in Masasi-Mtwara.

The Maasai Tribal Men in Arusha Tanzania

Kilian was born in Arusha and spent half of his childhood in Mtwara & Tabora [Chuo cha Uhazili] before moving back to Arusha [NAFCO-Basotu in Hanang District]. Kilian attended primary school in Ghairo Primary School located in NAFCO Basotu. At Ghairo Primary School Kilian was the head of student’s government [head prefect]. Kilian passed his Standard Seven National Examination and was selected to join Mawenzi Secondary School in Moshi, Kilimanjaro. Kilian was assistant head of student’s government [assistant head prefect - bweni] at Mawenzi where he also passed his Form Four National Examination with division one. He was then selected to join Minaki High School in Pwani, Tanzania. Kilian was chairman of student’s government in Minaki where he also passed his Form Six National Examination with division one. Kilian Graduated from Minaki on May of 1998 and went to pursue his University Studies in the United States. They say nyota njema huonekana asubuhi – Kilian’s early life is a true bright star. If indeed there is such a thing as a natural born leader then Kilian is truly an example of one. Over the course of his childhood and youth Kilian has continuously hold leadership positions everywhere he lived.

 

Downtown Moshi in Kilimanjaro-Tanzania

Higher Education

In the United States Kilian attended the Stark State College where he attained his associate degree in accounting and finance. He then went on to join the Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio where he attained his bachelor of accounting degree [in 2007] and masters of business administration in 2009. While pursuing his higher education in the United States, Kilian was the chairman and founder of the Tanzanian Association in Canton, Ohio.

Career

For the last ten years, Kilian worked as a senior accountant for several for profit and non-profit organizations in Canton and Cleveland, Ohio. Through out his career in the United States Kilian has continue to assume leadership and managerial positions in several for profit and non-profit organizations.

Kilians Beliefs & Philosophy

Kilian believes that life is all about choices and sacrifice but timing is everything. You must make right decisions at a right time if you are to fulfill your future aspirations. When it comes to life, Kilian does not believe in competition. Kilian believes that there are enough opportunities for each and every one of us to succeed and enjoy God’s divine mission for humanity i.e. equality, happiness and justice for all.

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KILIAN'S CALL TO TANZANIAN YOUTH

The Kilian Kamota’s Call to All Tanzanian Youth: Our Turn to Lead the Nation is Now

By Kilian Kamota

The task is ours, the Tanzanian youth, to decide the future and the fate of our Nation. Our fathers, the first generation of leaders, have done their part; they fought political colonialism and afforded us the political independence. The time has come for them to pass on the torch to us, so we can fight for socio-economic independence. We must show up, accept the torch and lead our Nation into new horizons. The future of Tanzania is in our hands – the Tanzanian youth. This is the task we can not ignore; this is the task we can not pass to someone else. It is our task, it is our duty. The question is what are we going to do about it? Are we going to show up for this noble task? Are we going to report for duty? Or are we going to let our Nation stray into wilderness and chaos without leadership? Are we going to decide the fate of our own future or are we going to let few politicians decide our fate and our future?

Our fathers – the first generation of leaders – have grown old. Their actions and leadership can attest to that. The time has come for them to pass on the torch and for us to take the realm. Let us help them retire in peace as we take over the noble task of leading our nation.

Letter to the First Generation of Leaders – Good Bye and Good Luck

On behalf of all Tanzanian youths’, i wish to express sincere gratitude to our fathers – the first generation of leaders – for all the hard work and dedication to our Nation. Your hard work and efforts is truly appreciated, it will not be forgotten and will not perish in vain. We will always cherish all that you were able [and not able] to achieve. And to that end, we want to wish you good health and good luck as you retire in peace. Please take on your new task of advising the new generation and raising grand children at home. Please retire in peace and watch us – your children – take on our new task of leading the Nation. You have educated us enough, you have prepared us enough and now we are telling you that we are ready to lead our Nation and take it into new horizons.

We salute you and bid you farewell – all Tanzanian workers and farmers of the 1960’s, 70’s, and 80’s. Kwaherini, enyi viongozi, wakulima na wafanyakazi wote wazee Tanzania, tunawatakia kila la heri na mapumziko mema ya uzeeni!

Letter to the Tanzanian Youth – Please Report for Duty.

Kwenu vijana wote Tanzania – karibuni katika safu mpya ya uongozi wa Tanzania mpya.  Karibuni katika safu mpya ya wakulima na wafanyakazi wa Tanzania mpya.

On behalf of the new Tanzanian generation, I call upon all Tanzanian youths to report to work. Welcome to your new position, welcome to the future. This is not a political movement; it has nothing to do with politics, religion or tribes; it has nothing to do with party or political affiliation.  This is a National movement and  has everything to do with the future of our Nation. Regardless of party or political affiliation, all Tanzanian youth must assume leadership responsibility anywhere they are and start working today to lead our Nation towards new horizon. True leadership has nothing to do with ones level or title in the society. There are many individuals in the world who don’t hold leadership position, yet they are providing leadership all the time, just as there are many others who hold leadership position, and yet they are not providing much leadership at all. let us provide the new leadership that is in dire need to transform our Nation.

Serious time’s calls for serious measures. We must have a sense of urgency and seriousness on the matters dear to our hearts. We must united together and forgo our religion and political affiliation and work together to provide the leadership needed to resuscitate our nation.

How Do We Start the New Task of Leading Our Nation?

By revolutionizing our minds- The time has come for us to acquire a revolution in our mindset. A revolution that will enable us to see things

THE #1 REASON LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FAILS

By Mike Myatt, Forbes Magazine March 2013

Over the years, I’ve observed just about every type of leadership development program on the planet. And the sad thing is, most of them don’t even come close to accomplishing what they were designed to do – build better leaders. In today’s column I’ll share the #1 reason leadership development programs fail, and give you 20 things to focus on to ensure yours doesn’t become another casualty.

According to the American Society of Training and Development, U.S. businesses spend more than $170 Billion dollars on leadership-based curriculum, with the majority of those dollars being spent on “Leadership Training.” Here’s the thing – when it comes to leadership, the training industry has been broken for years. You don’t train leaders you develop them – a subtle yet important distinction lost on many. Leadership training is alive and well, but it should have died long, long ago.

This may be heresy to some – but training is indeed the #1 reason leadership development fails. While training is often accepted as productive, it rarely is. The terms training and development have somehow become synonymous when they are clearly not. This is more than an argument based on semantics – it’s painfully real. I’ll likely take some heat over my allegations against the training industry’s negative impact on the development of leaders, and while this column works off some broad generalizations, in my experience having worked with literally thousands of leaders, they are largely true.

An Overview of the Problem
My problem with training is it presumes the need for indoctrination on systems, processes and techniques. Moreover, training assumes that said systems, processes and techniques are the right way to do things. When a trainer refers to something as “best practices” you can with great certitude rest assured that’s not the case. Training focuses on

The Nature of Leadership and Policy Problems in Tanzania

By Kilian M. Kamota

 Introduction:

There are noises and confusion everywhere across the country concerning leadership and public policy issues in Tanzania. The fact that there are leadership inadequacy and policy problems across the Nation seems to become a nationwide consensus today. The call for and the eventual agreement to reevaluate the constitution is a vivid evidence of the matter.  The evidence can also be seen all across the Nation as citizen’s outcry regarding socio-economic problems is spreading like a wild fire. Over the last six months alone [from September 2012 to March 2013] we have witnessed intense citizen outcry over the issues of gas exploration in Mtwara, the form four national examination results fiasco, the everyday clashes between police and citizens, the continue electricity and water supply woes as well as the issue of religion conflicts – to mention the few.  All these issues bring us to a realization that how leaders formulate and implement socio-economic policies in Tanzania is more than a puzzle. It is a perplexity that requires a shift in mindset and a recognition that the current socio-economic landscape is changing, and as it changes, the role of everyone involved [in formulating and implementing policies] from citizens to leaders and all stakeholders must evolve. Who decides how the country’s future will look, in terms of policies, politics, governance and the economy, that affects people well being is an important question that requires a paradigm shift (or at least a semi-paradigm shift). It is the million dollar question, the challenge and the opportunity for all Tanzanians that stimulate a rich dialogue as Tanzanians consider their varying needs and the types of leadership that is required to lead them to reach their new objectives.

 The nature of leadership and policy problems in Tanzania is nothing new to a young and upcoming developing nation. The problem has been a long standing Public Administration challenge of reconciling public policy theory and practice. Sabatier & Mazzmaiman, in their book The Implementation of Public Policy (1980), defined the gap as the widening of the distance between stated policy goals and the realization of such planned goals. For Tanzania, in specific, the problem is a result of lack of citizen participation; lack of fundamentals of stable and responsible government; the structure of constitution; the structure and system of government as well as the nature of country’s presidential institution, democracy and the policy system.

Although Tanzania is a democratic country but the effectiveness and responsiveness of its government comes into question when you analyze their actions and their policy results. The Tanzanian leadership and policy system –the government, the constitution, its democracy and leadership - is an old paradigm. The old system has been left behind. Times have changed; the Nation has changed; public needs, objectives and goals have changed but the system has remained the same. And making the changes necessary, given the power and stereotype that remains in the minds of citizens and rigid leaders, may be very difficult unless the first generation of leaders and administrators which has grown old agree to transfer their responsibilities to the new breed of leaders and administrators. By acknowledging the potential for positive change and renewal that can arise from a new breed of leaders and administrators, Tanzanian’s can find a different paradigm for transforming government performance. The task is our, Tanzanians, to assist our leaders to achieve a revolution in management and leadership thinking. Through a revolution in mindset “public managers will acquires a new world view, a new intellectual framework, and a new paradigm from which to see both the current requirements for leading organizations and the challenges of creating institutions capable of qualitative and transformational change in performance and service deliver (Kiel, 1994; Daneke, 1990).

 Fifty years after gaining independence from Great Britain in 1961, the Tanzanian government today is facing same problems that the United States government was facing fifty years after the American Revolution [when America was a young and upcoming nation]. When Andrew Jackson became president of the United States, in 1829, the American

K KAMOTA CAREER STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

KILIAN KAMOTA

CAREER STATEMENT OF PURPOSED 

Two things have been of utmost concern to me for several years; poverty in 3^rd world countries and global political instability. I believe that leadership is paramount when it comes to economic development and the fight against poverty in 3rd world countries. If solutions can be identified for poor leadership, then a majority of problems facing these countries can begin to be addressed in a deliberate manner.

My concern about the increasing trend of political and social unrest across the globe is quite alarming. Continents including: Africa, Asia, South America, Middle East and Far East have the same recurring theme - socio-economic and political unrest. Early on, I had the desire to pursue a career in Diplomacy and International Relations in order to participate in global peacekeeping missions, negotiations and conflict resolutions.  Now, I have come to realize what’s really needed to alleviate poverty and bring sustainable peace, stability and prosperity throughout the globe. We need conscientious leaders, administrators and good governance to efficiently manage the vast amount of resources and thus mitigate income inequality and guarantee socio-economic stability. Majority of social, economic and political unrest originates from poverty and the fight for resources. In his 2005 book, The End of Poverty, Professor Jeff Sachs says these are issues we cannot continue to ignore anymore due to the intrinsic link between the rich and the poor. The destine of the rich and the poor are inherently linked and this became evident during the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C.  Because of these concerning issues, I am committed to participate in the fight against poverty, and towards peace and stability in the world. I would like to do so by pursuing a career in non-profit organizations and government institutions.

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK- BY BENJAMIN MKAPA

Leadership: An African viewpoint and experience
 from - Gazeti la Thisday 2007-04-26 09:38:11
By Benjamin William Mkapa

The connection between leadership and governance on the one hand, and outcomes in terms of economic growth, development and poverty reduction on the other hand, is not too difficult to discern. What are not so easy to determine, and what are not receiving adequate attention in the development debate, are the circumstances that can produce the kind of leadership qualities in an African context (historical, cultural, and sociological) that are necessary to positively impact on the continent`s development. It does not matter how much the mainstream debate on African development tries to ignore or underplay the significance of Africa`s history and experience of slavery, colonialism, the Cold War and an exploitative global economic order in explaining the continent`s incidences of misgovernance, as well as current poverty levels and economic woes.

I believe that a discussion of leadership and governance in Africa will be seriously deficient if it fails to put previous and current leadership, and the developmental challenges they faced and continue to face, in their proper historical, cultural and sociological context. I hold no brief for those African leaders who looted or tyrannized their countries. Africa’s historical legacy is not an excuse for such things; but it provides an explanation. For instance, there is no doubt that the mess that is beginning to be sorted out in the DRC is the direct consequence of King Leopold II, of Belgian colonialism and of the Cold War. Likewise, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda was a direct consequence of certain aspects of Belgian colonialism.

However, I also believe that Africa cannot forever hold its history responsible for its current levels of poverty, or as an excuse for bad governance and lack of reform. Africa must not forget its history, but African resolve and African spirits must not be imprisoned by it. Fifty years after Ghana’s independence, Africa can and should now seek to conquer the negative legacies of its history, and engender a new trajectory of its development towards a more prosperous era.

Colonial Legacy
There has been considerable debate about how much European colonial legacy has impacted on post-colonial Africa; and what influence, if any, this legacy continues to have on the African continent. More to the point, how helpful and constructive, or unhelpful and destructive was the colonial legacy in terms of the development of post-colonial Africa. How responsible was this legacy for the quality and character of post-colonial Africa leadership. European colonial powers ruled most of Africa from 1885 to 1960, a period of 75 years. Ghana, the first sub-Saharan African country to become independent, celebrated its 50th year as an independent nation only this year, 2007.

So, for the majority of African countries, the period they spent under colonial rule is still far longer than the period they have since enjoyed independence and self-rule, and its influence endures.
The democratic values,

Government Reforms: Its Quasi Names and Implications on Leadership

By Kilian M. Kamota

One aspect of contemporary organizations that both scholars and practitioners agree on is the presence, the need and the importance of change; by organization I am referring to a group of people with defined mission and objectives that came together for the purpose of achieving certain goals. Alvin Toffler, in the book Order Out of Chaos, argues that during the last decade several scholastic analysis have emphasized both the accelerating pace of change in the world and the increasing complexity generated by the process of change. Dwight Waldo, in the book Public Administration toward Year 2000, pointed out that the only thing that can be predicted with certainty in our social life is that complexity will increase and change will quicken. Modern organizations and institutions are said to be non linear dynamics filled with rhythms, cycles, chaos and change. In the book Managing Chaos & Complexity in Government, Douglas Kiel, argue that non linear dynamic and change is the new paradigm that public leaders and managers need if they are to build organizations with the internal capacity for transformational change. But change tends to come in many faces ranging from reform, to revolution, reorganization, restructuring, reinvention and reengineering. The challenge facing scholars and practitioners is to figure out the most effective kind of change that can produce social change that will satisfy follower’s authentic needs

The concept of reform has gained profound reputation over the last few years. Hardly a day goes by without a news story about an organization, a corporation, a government entity, or a national government undergoing reforms. In The United States, there are talks about the need to reform the Social Security sector, the Medicare System, the Welfare System, and the education system to name the few. The recent United States economic meltdown, the credit crunch, the auto industry crisis, the housing market crisis and the banking crisis are all signs of the need for reforms; to top it off, dictator’s and the few remaining authoritarian leaders across the globe are aging, starting to retire, or being thrown out of power every year, each one of those changes requiring at least some kind of reforms in the structure of government and the ways of governing. At the same time, people across the globe, as we have seen in the Middle East, wants more reforms in different aspects of organizations or institutions that touch their lives in one way or another.

This topic is important because both scholars and practitioners are troubled by the question of how to and what kind of change to employ in different situations – ranging from reform, restructuring, reinvention, reengineering, revolution and reorganization. It is also important because almost every country in the world has – at a certain point – implemented reforms in certain institutions or certain aspects of its institutions. Whenever an organization or a nation is facing a crisis or failures, the way out – most of the time – has been to reform the sector or aspect that caused or that has been mostly affected by the crisis. And most of the time, those reforms came in terms of economic, electoral, constitutional, trade, education, or healthcare, to name the few. Reforms have been the tool of choice for many governments and institutions to dig themselves out of ditches; it has been the most popular tool in change movements or rescue missions of many struggling institutions; and has been behind majority of major social and institutional success stories around the world.

To me personally, the topic is of outmost importance because I am unhappy with the way African countries are governed and have made a conscious decision that I will do something about the situation – by proposing and stimulating a rich dialogue about the need for comprehensive reforms to their government and leadership system.

Conceptualization & Distinctions:

In his Article Reinventing Government, Robert Hillman defined reform as to put or change into an improved form or conditions;

Great Quotes from Great Leaders

 

Top 100 Inspirational Quotes

BY Kevin Kruse Contributor Forbes Magazine 28-5-2013

1. Life is about making an impact, not making an income. –Kevin Kruse

2. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost

5. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale

6. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

7. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan

8. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

9. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

10. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

11. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse

12. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon

13. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain

15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

16. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

17. The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha

18. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

19. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

20. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

21. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

22. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi

23. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

24. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

25. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

26. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

27. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

28. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

29. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain

30. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
31. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra

32. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
33. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin

34. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh
35. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

36. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

37. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

38. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

39. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck

40. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington

41. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb
42. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

43. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair

44. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

45. Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides

46. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

47. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

48. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb

49. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

50. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius

51. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

52. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

53. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

54. Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama

55. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

56. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle

57. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

58. You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown

59. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

60. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

61. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine

62. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

63. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

64. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti

65. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

66. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan

67. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

68. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

69. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

70. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

71. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach

72. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot

73. You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey

74. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh

75. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

76. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

77. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren

78. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray

79. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at. –Jesse Owens

80. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser

81. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

82. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius

83. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey

84. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama

85. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou

86. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan

87. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

88. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

89. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

90. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

91. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison

92. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills

93. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt

94. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

95. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

96. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

97. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

98. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

99. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

100. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn

101. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

102. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

“Jukumu kuu la mwanazuoni wa Chuo Kikuu ni kuutafuta ukweli; kuuzungumza kadiri anavyouona na kuusimamia kwa uthabiti bila kujali gharama yake.”

Source: Nasaha za  Mwalimu Julius Nyerere alivyowaasa wasomi kwenye kongamano la wanazuoni (Juni 27, 1966), Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam.

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“Tumeonewa kiasi cha kutosha, tumenyonywa kiasi cha kutosha, na tumepuuzwa kiasi cha kutosha. Unyonge wetu ndio uliotufanya tuonewe, tunyonywe na kupuuzwa. Sasa tunataka mapinduzi [ya kifikra]; mapinduzi [ya kifikra] ya kuondoa unyonge (wetu) ili tusionewe na kunyonywa tena.’’

Source: Nasaha kutoka Azimio la Arusha

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Kwa mujibu wa Jarida la “The African Executive” toleo Na. 415 la tarehe 3-10 Aprili, 2013, ni kwamba: tatizo kubwa kabisa la binadamu kwa siku hizi ni umasikini. Ili kuondokana na umasikini huo, hitaji la msingi kabisa ni kupata kipato kizuri ambacho chanzo chake kikubwa ni ajira. Kwa hiyo njia madhubuti ya kupambana na kutokomeza umasikini ni kutengeneza nafasi nyingi za ajira iwezekanavyo na kuwapatia watu ujuzi na utaalamu ili kujaza nafasi hizo.

Jarida hilo linaelezea pia kwamba, kutengeneza nafasi za ajira bila kuwajengea wananchi ujuzi na utaalamu wa kufanya kazi hizo ni kazi bure kwa kuwa kazi hizo zitafanywa na wataalam kutoka nje na hivyo kutowanufaisha wananchi wetu. Kwa hiyo kama Serikali inawapa watu wake elimu bora na kuwajengea watu wake ujuzi na utaalamu na kama Serikali inaweka mazingira mazuri ambayo watu wanaweza kufanya biashara na kupata fedha, basi watu hao watajinufaisha wenyewe, watawanufaisha wengine na wanaweza kuisaidia Serikali kuondokana na umasikini

Source: Hotuba ya Msema wa Kambi ya Upinzani Bungeni April 16, 2013