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Aliko Dangote Biography

Aliko Dangote GCON (born 10 April 1957) is a Nigerian business magnate, investor, and owner of the Dangote Group, which has interests in commodities in Nigeria and other African countries. As of March 2018, he had an estimated net worth of US$14.1 billion.

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Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.

Competition, Entrepreneur, Healthy, Toes

To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big.

Big, Build, Dream, Successful, Tenacity

In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.

Being The Best, Perfection, Strive

After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.

Death, Greatest, Industrialist, Remembered, Want

Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets.

Best Kept Secrets, Kept Secrets, Nigeria, Secret, Secrets

Passion is what drives me forward. Passion is what makes me go to bed at 2am and wake up at 6am.

2Am, Bed, Drives, Forward, Passion, Wake Up

Let me tell you this and I want to really emphasize it. . . nothing is going to help Nigeria like Nigerians bringing back their money. If you give me $5 billion today, I will invest everything here in Nigeria. Let us put our heads together and work.

Emphasize, Give, Giving, Invest, Together, Want

Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.

Africa, People, Real, Risk, Risks, Story

Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home

Home, Mind, Morning, Retiring, Solve

Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.

Achieve, Bigs, Capital, Commodity, Manufacturing, Same

To succeed in business, you must build a brand and never destroy it. One competitive advantage I had when I ventured into manufacturing was my brand “Dangote,” which I diligently built in the course of my trading commodities.

Advantage, Commodity, Destroy, Diligently, Succeed, Ventured

I need a visa in almost 38 countries, which means an American has more access into Africa than myself.

Access, Countries, Country, Mean, Needs, Visa

If you don’t have ambition, you shouldn’t be alive

Alive, Ambition, Ifs, Shouldnt

When you have made it in life, you must give back to those who made you.

Back, Give, Giving, Giving Back, Life, Made

I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It's hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don't rest until I achieve something.

Believe, Hard, Hard Work, Joy, Secrets, Youth

You could easily tell that hardwork and perseverance go hand in hand with patience. We often hear people say patience is worth it, yet we don't practice it. I did and look how well it worked out for me.

Hands, Hardwork, Perseverance, Practice, Say, Worked

In the journey to success, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

Journey, Purpose, Success, Tenacity

I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me 30 years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

Dream, Journey, Successful, Today, World, Youths

Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive

Attain, Bed, Each Day, Endeavor, Productive