God doesn’t use great things or
ideas to make a man great, so that he won’t ascribe his greatness to his great
ideas, rather; He uses the little things to confound the wise of this world. Quantity
is in number and size but God doesn’t work with number and size, rather, He
works with what you can start with and where you can start from with a view of
where you are going.
For any man to experience
greatness in whatever he does, he will have to be humble enough to appreciate
the days of little beginning. Greatness will be daisy; if you kill the little
in your hands, inside the little in your hands lies your GREATNESS.
I
am bring this word “POWER IN THE LITTLE” to challenge
you to do what you need to do, so as to produce the surprising result that is
rare. Never ignore great things that are ahead but come in little ideas, don’t
ignore it because “Ignoring the days of little beginning is compromising the days of
greater end that lies ahead of you”.
Grab the little that comes across
your way to seek for great things because it is the little that comes across
you that will lead you to great things that you have been dreaming about.
Therefore, as a young graduate, who aspires to become another business mogul,
you need to grab the opportunity of starting from the little idea. My dear
salary earners, who have been thinking of resigning to start big; why don’t you
think of starting small from where you are and see it grow big, bigger to an
enviable state.
Jesus needs to feed the
multitude, the usher counted men to be 5, 000 without women and children, which
approximately will lead them to the count of about 20, 000 (including women and
children). He has nothing to offer them after he had taught them for three days
and doesn’t want them to go without food, so they won’t get wearied and tired
on the way home. Jesus requested for what He can offer but there was no place
in the wilderness where they could get what can feed such a number of people.
The disciples met with a young
boy with two fishes and five loaves of bread, trying to gather such as they can
get so as to feed the people. Lo and behold, Jesus collected this
little from the boy; gave thanks and got the people fed and the young boy also
left with twelve baskets after this faith business transaction with Jesus.
Jesus didn’t despise the little
He was given. The young boy also didn’t despise the little he had, he opened
his investment firm that day, which attracted much more capital base. There is
power in the little. As a matter of fact, if you have great dreams, you must
pass through the little, which will lead to greatland. The same way it cannot
be possible for you to count digit from 1-20 without counting 1-9 before you
jump to 10, if you start from 10, you have missed a cogent part of the digits,
likewise it is not possible for you to get to the top without passing through
the little level. if you do, you have missed some experiences you will need
later that will require you to start from the scratch.
Every Great Achiever Started From Little
Nobody is born to the world as
grown up as he or she is. It is natural that you would have been born a few KG
at birth before you start growing in your mother’s hand until now. This implies
that, there is no enviable firm that you have come across that didn’t start
from little.
CNN: This was the brainchild of
Robert “Ted” Tumer, whose father committed suicide in 1963. He took over his
father’s business of billboard advertising company. He bought a failing Atlanta
TV station that broadcast old movies and network reruns in 1970.
Cable News Network was once
called Chicken Noodle Network because he lost money in the first year of its
operation in 1980. He kept building the network news bureaus around the world
and in 1983, he bought satellite news channel, owned in part by ABC, and
thereby eliminated CNN’s main competitor.
The network gained significant attraction with its live coverage
of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and the network’s audience grew along with the
increasing popularity of cable television during the 1990s.
In 1996, CNN merged with Time Warner, which merged with America
Online four years later. Today, Ted Turner is an environmentalist and peace
activist whose philanthropic efforts include a 1997 gift of $1 billion to the
United Nations.
Elizade
Motors: Michael was born
in Nigeria on June 14, 1938 to a modest couple. At a very young age, he became
a street vendor, and started selling charcoal, food & firewood to help make
ends meet.
Although
born in a time when there was little to no financial aid for the less
privileged, and parents believed a lot lesser in education, he still
successfully made it through high school, and later got a degree in Business
Administration from the university.
After
his graduation, he joined the work force at CFAO motors; a French distribution
company. This same company had paid the tuition for his last two years in the
university.
In
1966, while still working as a salesman for CFAO motors, he successfully sold
20 trucks to the Electricity Corporation of Nigeria, but to his dismay, his
manager took credit for the sale, which led to a protest by Michael, followed
with the lost of his job by the end of the year.
After
his ousting at CFAO motors, he moved on, and got a job at British Petroleum
(BP). Within three months of his employment, he increased the sales of his
local division by 25%. But just as he was unfortunate with his previous
employment, his new boss took credit for the outstanding growth, and this left
him aggrieved and lost in thoughts.
While
in Lagos, Nigeria, during his annual British Petroleum (BP) holiday, he
decided to take a daring step to approach the RT Brisco Group; an importer and
distributor of trucking and automobile equipments. He made them an offer to
sell their equipments for a commission on every successful sale.
After
careful consideration, the RT Brisco Group decided to give him a trial. In just
four months after he sealed the deal with Brisco, he sold about 40 cars. The
commissions earned from the total sales, were overwhelmingly higher than his
yearly salary at BP. This motivated him to quit his job, and pursue his dreams.
In
1971, he started the company, Elizade Independent Agencies (EIA), with his
wife, Elizabeth Wuraola Ojo. The name Elizade, was derived from both his wife’s
name, Elizabeth, and his own name, Ade. His company focused on the distribution
of automobiles in Nigeria, especially Japanese cars.
He
acquired the license to import Toyota Cars, with the name, Toyota Nigeria
Limited, and single handedly made the car brand, the most sought-after
automobile brand in Nigeria. He later went on to acquire 100% of RT Briscoe in
Nigeria, and subsequently acquired more shares, to make his total holdings in
Toyota Nigeria Limited, sum up to 74%.
Today,
his conglomerate consists of Toyota Nigeria Limited, RT Briscoe Nigeria,
Elizade Auto Land, Classic Motors Limited, Crow Motors Nigeria Limited, Elizade
University, Okin Travels Limited, and a host of other investments. He’s also on
the board of directors of several Nigeria banks and other companies such as
Ecobank, First City Monument Bank, and SMT Nigeria Limited (the official
distributors of Mack trucks, Volvo trucks & Volvo Construction Equipments).
From Littleness To Greatness
If you take more time to read
histories of some more companies or individuals who started from the little,
you will understand how they migrated from the little to great level they are
today.
Start Little: With a few biographies that you have read and our
monthly interviews with our guest, you will have deduced that you cannot shy
away from starting little. You must be resolute to start little while you are
young, so that your firm can grow with you as you grow in age, don’t avoid what
you will have to do later now when you have the strength to take it across the
globe. Take time to read “They Didn’t Start Big!
They Started Small!! They
Grew Big!!! They Grew Bigger!!!! share, refer, comment and ask questions from
our blogsite: bizxploit.blogspot.com.
Persistence: Wherever you see the word “persistence” or the action
persistence in place, it reveals that there are many challenges that have
surfaced but have been conquered by God’s grace. There are valleys in our life journey.
As you embark on this great journey, you need to be prepared for the
unprepared, so that the unprepared for will not scare and sway you away from
your journey to destiny.
There are many packed up businesses
today, many abandoned projects that will never see the light of the day any
longer because the pioneer couldn’t persevere to be persistent, he couldn’t
look into the eyeball of challenges and speak the way David spoke to Goliath,
that I am GIANT KILLER, I am sent to kill you and not you to finish me.
Friends, your victory and
breakthrough lie in your persistence not in your avoidance of what you should
put under your subjection. Stand your ground that you are here to be
established and to displace whoever and whatever doesn’t want you to be
established.
Have Target, Pursue and Achieve Target: You cannot experience
greatness, if you haven’t seen it, which will propel you to have target born of
your vision and goal. As you aren’t comfortable in the valley of littleness,
you have to see from afar, which is your target, pursue your target
wholeheartedly and ensure you achieve your target.
A Pastor friend said this to me
that: “The reward of hardwork is more hardwork”, the achievement of your target
will surely lead you to having another greater target for you to achieve. As
you keep on achieving those targets, you are moving from one level of greatness
to another until history repeats itself in your life, that people will begin to
envy you because you will threaten them.
