34 Quotes by Aliko Dangote

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

If I have an idea, I can actualize it through our political leaders.

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.

If I had challenges in my company, I would not hesitate to sell assets to remain afloat, to get to the better times, because it doesn't make any sense for me to keep any assets and then suffocate the whole organization.

I always make sure I hire people smarter than me.

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.

Where the assets of Facebook were hype, we have real assets.

If bad and inexperienced politicians control power in Nigeria, my wealth may turn into poverty, and I am not ready to become a poor man.

The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.