It’s our decisions, not our conditions, that ultimately shape the quality of our lives.

— Derric Yuh Ndim

Living a life without setting goals is like sailing a ship without a planned course. You are likely to end up somewhere you didn’t intend to go!

— Derric Yuh Ndim

Many of us have allowed well-meaning parents, teachers, religious leaders and peers to tell us that there is something fundamentally wrong with us if we don’t believe as they do. Simply put, we have forgotten how to think for ourselves.

— Derric Yuh Ndim

Many self-help teachers say that our schools only focus on “preparing today’s youths to get good jobs by developing scholastic skills.” They think that’s a bad thing. It’s probably the right thing. Not everyone is suited for entrepreneurship, as statistics seem to suggest. Even future entrepreneurs usually need to begin as employees to get their starting capital and to learn while they work.

— Derric Yuh Ndim

Material poverty doesn’t cause murder, rape or terror. Mental poverty does.

— Derric Yuh Ndim

My view is that, if you think that money brings problems, you have a problem with money. The money itself is innocent.

— Derric Yuh Ndim

Only once you believe that success is possible, then success becomes possible

— Derric Yuh Ndim

Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action and inaction, work and rest.

— Derric Yuh Ndim

Our perceptions of reality are only a relationship to what is actually out there. Perceptions are influenced by context, by previous life experience, and by our tendency to seek out evidence to confirm our expectations. This drive to confirm, as argued by social physiologists, results in what is known as self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Derric Yuh Ndim

Our tomorrow misshaped by the choices we make today, consciously or unconsciously

— Derric Yuh Ndim