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

If you don’t have ambition, you shouldn’t be alive

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.

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

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

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.

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.