HE DOESN’T DO SMALL THINGS
By 2025, Dangote says he would have investments worth $50 billion in the US and Europe.
“Beginning in 2020, 60% of our future investments will be outside Africa, so we can have a balance. We are looking at petrochemicals but can also invest in other companies.
“Let’s say that by 2025, I’m looking at between $20 billion and $50 billion. Mind you, we don’t do small things.”
LEARNT FROM THE MEN WHO BUILT AMERICA
“I never worry about being too bold. In business it’s good to be aggressive, but with a human face.
“I thought at first I was really aggressive until I watched this show, The Men Who Built America. I realized that actually they were much bolder than us. Someone like Vanderbilt, he built 50,000 miles of rail! That is a very bold move. That’s why anything we do, we don’t do it small. If there’s any human being who has done this equally, I am equal to the task to do the same. I actually have a sign on my desk that says, ‘Nothing is impossible’.”
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