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

To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big.

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.

Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.

When you have made it in life, you must give back to those who made you.

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

I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me 30 years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.