Aliko Dangote Quotes

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

Aliko Dangote

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

Aliko Dangote

#3. I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

#4. 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.

Aliko Dangote

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

Aliko Dangote

#6. 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.

Aliko Dangote

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

Aliko Dangote

#8. On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.

Colleen Atwood

#9. 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

Aliko Dangote

#10. If you don't have ambition, you shouldn't be alive

Aliko Dangote

#11. There is a finish line out there with your name on it. Do not stop until you plow though it!

Jerry Gladstone

#12. If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west streets were eddies where, leaf-like, one could turn slow circles from the beginning to the ever shall be, world without end.

Amor Towles

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

Aliko Dangote

#14. We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Aliko Dangote

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

Aliko Dangote

#17. Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.

Johnny Weir

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

Aliko Dangote

#19. Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets,

Aliko Dangote

#20. I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

Iyanla Vanzant

#21. Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good.

Marshall Ganz

#22. 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.

Aliko Dangote

#23. 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.

Aliko Dangote

#24. 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.

Aliko Dangote

#25. Children, to be illustrious is sad.

Howard Nemerov

#26. 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.

Aliko Dangote

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

Aliko Dangote

#28. I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#29. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Anais Nin