Tony Elumelu famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone to African development and the key to local value creation in Africa. I am determined to ensure that Africa's next generation of entrepreneurs have the platform they need to turn their entrepreneurial aspirations into sustainable businesses that will drive economic growth and job creation across Africa,
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Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years
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Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s)
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Everything I have today is because of Africa, I was born here, went to school here, I work here and I'm achieving some level of financial comfort here
-- Tony Elumelu
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.
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Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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Exploiting yourself sexually is not a good look. I don't find it encouraging...I just stand there and sing. I'm not worried that I'm a 'plus size' and so much bigger than other artists. No matter what you look like the key is to be happy with yourself.
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I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
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The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.
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