A tip of the Iceberg on my interview with Ladi on @channelstv today on Business Incorporated.
Thanks for the great feedbacks from those that joined, a repeat broadcast will be on air tomorrow by 12:30am and 4-5:30am
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Dear young Nigerian,
Know this: you didn't become 'great' the day you started working hard, acquiring wealth and appearing on international platforms. No! You become great the day you speak to your mind and affirm that 'I am great'. You are what you say you are. Digest this!
Don't lose your cutting edge trying to get everyone to like you. Those who succeed in the public square and make huge impact are people with deep convictions and are not apologetic about it.
They daily improve and refine what they believe through study and answering questions, but they are rooted in something.
Those who have no roots but drift with trends and winds always wanting to be on the "popular side" lose the respect of all.
Paul said this of his apostleship.
2 Corinthians 6:8
"By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true."
Only false prophets are loved by all.
Luke 6:26
"Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets."
Let me bookmark this tweet! I will come back to it on or before the year 2036 by God's Grace... But until then, we keep working and trusting God for a greater outcome...
They say I am worth 38 billion Dollars, but some of our companies have not been listed yet. They will all be listed before the end of the year.
Dangote....
When MTN wanted to come into Nigeria, plenty people said the country wasn’t ready for mobile phones. Too poor, too complicated, too risky.
They came anyway. They bet big on a market everyone else doubted.
Today they are one of the most valuable companies on the Nigerian Exchange, and millions of us cannot go a day without them.
The lesson. The biggest opportunities almost always look doubtful at the start. Conviction in the face of doubt is where fortunes are made.
Sustained wealth happens when you have a community thinking together. The key person who is visibly wealthy only achieves that wealth because others also have skin in the game and propel them for their benefit.
I am not engaging in "trillionaire worship" like others, but what was instructive about the SpaceX IPO was that the cafeteria workers and janitors at the same company also became wealthy. That is a bigger deal than anything else.
I hear so much talk about founders and investors in African entrepreneurship, but what nobody tells you is that the people who also became wealthy are the people who supported the entrepreneur and the enterprise with work.
Decades ago, I discovered that Dangote's depot operators, when he was selling commodities, were also Naira billionaires in their own right. They didn't need to cheat him to get wealthy, as most misguided people believe employees should do; they had an arrangement that made all of them wealthy.
Dangote took the financial risk while the depot chiefs took the operational risks. I see this same dynamic in many supply chains in Africa. My wife's aunt's 70th birthday in Accra last year was attended by all the key FMCG players and traders who worked together in an ecosystem that they all profited from.
Aliko became rich because his family learned about this model long before anyone else did. He benefited immensely from it, and he is passing this same ecosystem-building approach on to the next generation of his family.
This aspect of African entrepreneurship is rarely discussed. People want to hear grass-to-grace stories or miracles. True wealth in reality is built by communities and ecosystems that work in sync. I will be talking about it a lot more.
I survived surgery yesterday, and I am grateful for another chance to keep doing this.
Last year, I showed my friend my portfolio on mutual funds. He looked at the numbers and wailed. Pure regret.
He had refused to start when I did. I started investing ₦30,000 monthly in 2018. In 2023, I increased it to ₦50,000 monthly. He just began with ₦30,000 monthly in 2025.
By 2036, 18 years from when I started, that investment will be worth over ₦76 million.
For him to reach that same ₦76 million, he'll need to keep investing until 2045. That's 9 extra years of his life, just because he delayed by 7 years. And by the time he gets there, I'd already be sitting on over ₦700 million.
This is what compound interest does. It doesn't care about your excuses, your "I'll start next year", or your "let me settle down first." Every year you delay costs you more than money; it costs you time you can never recover.
If you haven't started, start today. Even with ₦10,000 or ₦20,000 monthly. Time is the real multiplier, not the amount.
What's stopping you from starting this month?
Above all, love God.