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Aliko Dangote
Nigerian
Businessman
Born:
Apr 10
,
1957
Africa
Always
Business
People
Power
You
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The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.
Aliko Dangote
Business
Dangerous
Entrepreneur
Dangerous Thing
He
Most
Understand
Does
Go
Fully
Actually
Thing
I always tried to move up the food chain. I started with cement and then moved into textiles and banking. When I was trading sugar, I added salt and flour so that then we could do pasta. And then I thought, why not make the bag for it, too? So, we started making packaging.
Aliko Dangote
Food
Thought
Salt
Sugar
Too
Added
Tried
Food Chain
Could
Bag
Make
Always
Making
Trading
Up
Pasta
Move
Moved
Cement
Banking
Packaging
Then
Chain
Why
Why Not
Flour
Started
I used to own two homes in Atlanta. But it was a lot of trouble. There are leaky roofs; you have to call people. It takes up too much time to own property everywhere. Now I stay at the St. Regis. I used to like cars a lot, too. I had 25 of them: Porsches, Ferraris.
Aliko Dangote
Time
You
Property
People
Car
Too Much
Trouble
Own
Too
Too Much Time
Everywhere
Stay
Atlanta
Had
Takes
Like
Call
Lot
Up
Them
Much
Used
Now
Homes
Two
My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a businessman and politician. I was actually raised by my grandfather.
Aliko Dangote
Death
Time
Man
Father
Politician
Nut
Great-Grandfather
Trader
His
West
Africa
Grandfather
Richest
Richest Man
Businessman
Actually
Raised
The number one thing that kills businesses in Africa is power - or the lack of power.
Aliko Dangote
Power
One Thing
Lack
Africa
Businesses
Thing
Number
I've run a very successful business, and I think I can also run a very successful team.
Aliko Dangote
Business
Think
Run
Also
Very
Successful
Team
Where the foreign exchange is not available, we are cutting down our operations. For example, we had a vegetable oil refinery; we have shut it down. We had a tomato-based processing plant; we have shut it down.
Aliko Dangote
Plant
Example
Down
Our
Exchange
Vegetable
Had
For Example
Operations
Foreign
Refinery
Oil
Where
Processing
Available
Cutting
Shut
I always make sure I hire people smarter than me.
Aliko Dangote
Me
People
Smarter
Make
Sure
Always
Hire
Than
Where the assets of Facebook were hype, we have real assets.
Aliko Dangote
Facebook
Hype
Real
Were
Where
Assets
I'm not in it for the money. No, no. I like to run a business that's successful... I'm a very creative person.
Aliko Dangote
Business
Creative
Money
Run
Like
Very
Person
Successful
Creative Person
The people who were supposed to invest in refineries, who understand the market, are benefiting from there being no refineries because of the fuel import business.
Aliko Dangote
Business
People
Market
Benefiting
Invest
Supposed
Import
Because
Understand
Were
Being
Fuel
Who
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