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Branding never sleeps. You have to advertise.

The Lesson Coca-Cola Still Teaches After 100 Years

You're doing a whole lot, but you're not very visible. Perception is everything. Coca-Cola is a global name and still advertises. Never limit your growth by staying hidden - branding never sleeps.

Build Your Asset Portfolio

For you to be successful, you need a huge portfolio of landed assets sitting behind your name.

Don't Let Money Sleep

Banks love everybody to keep their money idle in the banks, rather than money working for them.

Underpromise, Overdeliver: The Reputation That Builds Empires

Underpromise, overdeliver. Your name is the first opportunity for you to make money. What is the integrity behind your name? Keep your word.

A Roof Over Your Head

The moment you give somebody a quality roof over their head, their perception of who they are and who they can become begins to become evident in their thinking.

Build What the World Needs

Build! So much of the world still needs to be built. There's an opportunity for you to build there and be of service to humanity, and you'll probably find wealth along the way.

A Steward, Not an Owner

This is all I have: the belief in God and doing His will. I always make sure that I am consistently doing God's will, and I consider myself just a steward of His resources, to work the earth and to keep it.

The Law of Giving

Don't be a taker. Give, give, give... eventually it will be given unto you.

The Power of “How Can I Help?

The biggest advice for networking is: serve people. “How can I help?” Those four words are the most powerful words in the world.

Surround Yourself With People Going Somewhere

Two poor men cannot help each other. I got where I am because of friendships with people who are going somewhere.

Create Wealth by Creating Wealth

The more money you make for other people, the more money you're going to make for yourself.

Help Others Get Rich

Make money for your friends and you'll never have to worry about money in your life.

Align People, Build Something Bigger

My superpower is finding alignment within teams: “Let’s come together and build something big, as opposed to each of us individually building something small.” Aligning people’s interests is so important.

The Power of Coming Together

A billion-dollar company is just a bunch of people who could have individually built $10 million businesses, who decided to come together and build one business. The most important thing is the team.

Build Systems to Scale

When you want to scale, the most important thing is to make things automatic. Building systems and aligning people is everything - once you get to a systemic thing, you can keep growing as long as nothing breaks.

Sustainable wealth comes from helping other people.

In Nigeria, if you don't make other people money, you don't get to make money. In America, if you don't make money, you can't make other people money. It's very different.

Wealth is a function of productivity. You have a lot of young people with a lot of needs, and entrepreneurs who need to meet those needs - that's how you see a lot of wealth grow.

The Audacity of Possibility

If people elsewhere in the world could do it, there was no reason why somebody here in Africa couldn't do it as well.

The book that taught me everything

I only have one book I recommend to everyone: How to Win Friends and Influence People. It sounds boring, but just read it - I learned everything from it.

Listen more than you talk

When you meet someone new, genuinely ask about them - and listen. If they say they like golf, ask about golf. Don't talk about yourself. Make it about them.

The difference is courage

Everyone has fear. There is no one who doesn't. It's not about having no fear - it's about overcoming it.

If Your Dreams Don’t Scare You, Dream Bigger

You need to be afraid of your dreams. Your dream should scare the hell out of you. If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough.