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Upfumi.

Wealth, want and provision

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Upfumi

Wealth, want and provision

Zundu kugara mundove hunzi neni ndava mombewo.Someone who stays close to a person of high status wants to be seen as important too; likewise a poor person who spends time among the wealthy starts to act as if they, too, are wealthy.Kupa huvigisa.If you lend money or goods to others when they are in need, you will be glad on the day they repay you everything they borrowed; it is as if you had stored away your own wealth for safekeeping.Kudada kwavari mugomo kukumbira vari pasi mapfihwa.It would be arrogant for the wealthy, who live comfortably, to beg from the poor, since it shows contempt and mockery of their poverty.Panoramba machinda nherera sinyungwe.A person should act according to their own means; they should not compare themselves to the wealthy or those in high positions, since some people only do what they do because they are backed by family or wealth.Ngwena haidyi chebamba chayo chinoza neronga.A wealthy person of good character rarely eats greedily; they only eat what they have been served or properly invited to.Tsvimborume chenga urarami hama dzife ugogara nhaka.Someone who lacks things should not lose heart; they should know that as long as they stay alive, they will eventually gain wealth.Chipa muchena kupfuma mudzinu wake. (K)A person who stays poor tends to remain poor even after being helped and given things; they lack the ambition to become wealthy and do not know how to build wealth.Musachema muzvere afirwa nomwana muchisiya uyo afa nomwana wake.People often feel more sympathy for someone with a smaller misfortune than for someone with a much greater one; it happens that someone from a wealthy home is pitied and helped, while a truly poor person who deserves help more goes without.Chaitemura chava kuseva.The once-great are now impoverished.Chiri pamuchena chiri pamutenure.The poor man's victories do not last.Murombo haarovi chinenguwo.The poor man rarely achieves great success.Ane ganda ane nyama hazvienzane nowakabata hohwa.Having even a little is better than having nothing: someone left with only the hide still has meat, which is more than the one holding a mushroom.Chakaenzanwa ibvudzi upfumi hahuna kuenzanwa.Some things, like hair, can be trimmed to be equal, but wealth between people can never truly be made equal.Chinokokwa upfumi, urombo hunozvikoka.Prosperity has to be actively pursued through effort, but poverty arrives on its own, uninvited, the moment one grows idle.Gona rehupfumi iziya.Prosperity comes through hard work and sweat, not through easy shortcuts.Hakuna mombe inokorera pamarekete.You cannot thrive on poor or inadequate resources; good outcomes need proper means.Kubvongodza muto kuseva kweaguta.Someone who already has plenty tends to grow careless and wasteful with what they have, losing the appreciation they once had for it.Kugara nhaka kuona dzevamwe.To manage what you inherit well, learn from watching how others have managed theirs, both their successes and their failures.Kugarika tange nhamo.Most people face hardship before they find stability; prosperity rarely comes without first struggling.Kunaka kwemurume imombe dzake.Traditionally, a man's standing comes not from his appearance but from what he owns.Kunaka kwemurume kuri muhomwe.What makes a man appealing often has more to do with what he has than with his looks.Kupfuma kwemuchana mudzimu wake.Even someone of humble standing has their own path to prosperity when their fortune turns.Kuramba nyama yechidembo hunge une yetsuro.You can afford to turn down a lesser option when you already have something better in hand.Kushaya hakunenerwi munhu denga ratarama.Poverty is not always someone's own fault; sometimes it comes from circumstances beyond their control.Mari ine chitema.Wealth often carries some hidden cost or wrongdoing behind how it was gained; money is rarely entirely clean.Mazvake-mazvake kudya kwembada.Everyone must fend for themselves, the way a leopard eats alone rather than sharing its catch.Mombe yekukumbira ndeyekukama wakaringe nzira.Something borrowed should be used with care and caution, always mindful that it does not belong to you.Mombe yenjeni kutokama wakasungira.What belongs to someone else needs to be handled with even more care than what is your own.Muchero wegudo unodyirwa kupedza.Something gained through real effort or risk is valued fully, with nothing let go to waste.Muromo chipfukuto unopedza matura.Excess, whether in eating or in idle talk, can quietly drain away what took a long time to build up.Mvura inoera usinayo.Good fortune often seems to pass by those who already have the least to build on.Mwanasikana ndimapfumise.Traditionally, a daughter brings wealth to her family through the bride price paid when she marries.Ndingarega sei kununa ini ndiri parumano.Someone whose circumstances are already set up well can hardly fail to prosper.Njera yomusaririra ndiyo yeshiri.Whatever is left over after everyone else has taken their share goes to those with the least standing.Nyika mukanza, haina mukwambo.A land or an opportunity belongs to everyone alike, not to any one person exclusively.Panodya ishe varanda vanodyawo.A leader's good fortune tends to trickle down and benefit those who serve under them too.Pfuma yenhaka inoparadza ukama.Disputes over inheritance often damage family relationships that once held strong.Raramo idivakamwe.Life is a pool you dive into only once: a chance, like life itself, does not come round again.Rombe ngerichaenda rodzoka ndimambo.Someone who leaves with nothing can return transformed and honoured, after struggling and succeeding elsewhere.Rombe rinosekwa richaenda, kana rodzoka hedzo nhureture.Those who mock the poor traveller on the way out are often left astonished when he returns having found success.Rugare tange nhamo.Lasting comfort and peace usually come only after first passing through real hardship.Tsapata rukukwe hazvienzani nokurara pasi.Even something worn and imperfect is still far better than having nothing at all.Upfumi idova hautani kupera.Material wealth can vanish just as quickly as morning dew evaporates in the sun.Urombo hwayo mhembwe kufa iri pamusungo.Poverty can trap someone as helplessly as an animal caught in a snare, unable to break free.Urombo uroyi hauudzwi munhu.People tend to hide their poverty rather than speak of it openly, much the way witchcraft accusations are kept quiet.Vimba nechako, chemwango chekukumbira hachina ndima.Borrowed things are never as reliable as what genuinely belongs to you; put your trust in your own resources.Waguta zvekupisa dura.Overindulgence can lead someone to act recklessly, destroying the very resources that satisfied them.Wegudza ndowegudza kufuga gumbeze rinotsva.It is best to make do with and value what is truly your own, even when it is imperfect.Zviri kumwene wegira kufuka kana kuwarira.The owner of something has the final say over how it gets used.
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