Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana 04-07