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I was stunned to hear AlikoDangote speak for the first time in 2011 at Aso Rock Presidential Villa. I learnt a lesson from his small voice.


You dont have to shout to be heard. Instead, succeed and you will be heard. Money adds volume to your voice.

Money adds volume to your voice. If you want your voice to be heard, go and make money, (but make it honestly).

The broker you are, the more you have to shout to be heard. But if you have a few billions, even your whisper will heard from miles away.

You dont have to make noise to make news. Just make legal money. When you succeed, even if you change your hairstyle, it will be front page news.


On your birthday, newspapers will be full of congratulations. Success makes you a newsworthy celebrity.

Increase your productivity by preparing for tomorrow today. Select what you will wear tomorrow, and have breakfast ready before you sleep.

They are small things, but the small edge they give you is the winners edge. Shape the future in the present.

Basic Rules of Money

* Money follows SEED, not NEED
* Spend debt on investment, not consumption

* It is broke people who are impressed by your designers. Those who can help you are not.

* As you grow older, having money makes you bolder, not older.

* Age gives you white hair, but sadly, it is money that gives you respect

* Never keep up with your neighbor. You will spend your capital trying to impress people who are not capital.

* If you must save, save to invest. Savings depreciate over time.

Anyone who has given you either food or money during this CoronaVirus lockdown, and was not mandated to do so by government, is your real friend.


They are someone who met you at the point of your need. When this is over, don’t forget such persons!

The best way to get promoted in the office is not to lick your boss' boots. If you want promotion, work as if you are working for God.


Work for God, not for salary. Promotion that lasts and brings wealth and peace of mind comes FROM God THROUGH men.

You own your feelings. Your feelings don’t own you. If you suddenly start feeling down, command yourself to feel good.

Find a quiet room to laugh for one full minute until you start feeling good again. Never tolerate bad moods. Celebrate good moods.

Even if your father is a gravedigger, and your mother a toilet washer, NEVER be ashamed of them.

Their job may have been dirty, but the dirty job produced the clean money that made you the huge success you are. Clean them up as they cleaned you up!

Too many people mistake process for progress. The fact you‘re busy doesn’t mean you‘re productive.


All promotion comes from God and He promotes those who deliver results instead of activity. It matters not if they are Christians. God is NOT partial.

Many people suffer from inferiority complex and think those who don’t have a low self esteem, like them, are proud.


Confidence is NOT pride. It is Godly. God has empowered you to achieve anything you put your heart to do. ASSURANCE is not ARROGANCE.

Telling people your goals gives them opportunity to shift the goal post before you can score a goal.


The surest success formula is to have big ears and a small mouth. By listening more than you talk, you increase your chance of scoring goals 100%.

How can you wake up in the morning and because you feel somehow you just act out how you feel.


That means your feelings control you. If you wake up feeling bad, Order your mind and body to feel good. You are their boss. They are not your boss.

Progress is a process, not an address. You dont get to a point and say you have arrived at progress.


Except you‘re dead, you must keep improving. The day you stop pedalling your bike, you will fall. The day you stop improving, you fall down and die.

If you tell the world the recipe for the dish you plan to cook and sell tomorrow, someone will cook and sell it today and everyone will say you copied them.

Keep your plans secret. Social media is for social things. Your secrets are serious things!

It is easier to abort a dream than to kill it. Why this rush to flaunt your baby bump. Imagine if King Herod saw Mary’s baby bump.

He would have worked to abort her Pregnancy. Don’t alert haters to what is coming. Let them hear when it has come!

Some people have no qualms saying they LOVE food, clothes, their job, an airline, sports, a TV show, a book, politics, or even money.

But to tell their spouse or children, ‘I love you’ is impossible for them. Their love is reserved for THINGS!

Don’t be hard on yourself, or hate yourself, or criticise yourself, or disparage yourself. There are enough haters in the world ready to do that. The shortage is in people who will love you. If you must do anything, let it be loving yourself!

Don’t rely on people’s gratitude. Many people don’t like to be grateful. They see gratitude as a debt, and humans hate debt.


Instead, make yourself necessary. Pharaoh’s butler remembered Joseph because he needed him, not because he was grateful!

If you only see faults in people, it may be that it is not them that are faulty, rather it is your eyes that are faulty.

No matter how bad people are, there is still something good that can be found in them. Change the angle from which you see them.

When you wake up, make sure you connect to God before you connect to the Internet.


For married men, make sure you connect to your wife before you connect to your WiFi. If you are a wife, make sure you connect to your husband before your broadband.

Dear men,

Connect to your children before you go out with friends to chill. Don’t just pay rent. Try to pay a visit to your parents! Salary is important, but don’t chase it to the detriment of family. Don’t just love life. Also love your wife.

Dear men,

If you claim to love your wife and children, yet you don’t have:

* Life insurance
* Investments, and
* A written will (which you keep secret)

The you don’t know the meaning of unconditional agape love. Go and learn what it means

Knowledge doesn’t bring blessings. It is application of knowledge that makes God bless you:

“Now that you KNOW these things, you will be blessed if you DO them.”-John 13:17

This explains why some professors are poor, while some dropouts are rich!

Dear men,

Dont be a good man, but a bad husband. Having time for friends and colleagues, but not for your wife and kids. Smiling and cheerful to boss and coworkers, but grouchy and irritable at home. Show your best impression at home, not outside.

It takes minutes for a Toyota to roll off the assembly line, but it takes months to manufacture a Rolls Royce.


Delay does not necessarily mean denial. Some people are getting a Toyota, but you are getting a Rolls. Give your prayer time to manifest.

Before getting angry at your parents for disciplining you, think of those who fail in life due to not having parents like yours.


Think of your friends who had parents who did not discipline them. Today they are crying the tears you cried as a child.

You are not a weak man if you spend quality time with your wife. Remember, it was Adam’s absence that the serpent took advantage of to manipulate Eve and cause the fall of man. Make sure he does not do the same to your marriage.

True friends are like stars. As long as the sun shines, you wont appreciate stars. But at night, stars become more visible because of darkness.


Very few of those you see in your sunshine days will come out during the midnight of your life.

Dont pray that God should help you cope with your life. You were not created to cope

“Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion”

You were created to DOMINATE your environment, not to cope or be dominated.

It was Moses’s own brothers that reported him to Pharaoh, for coming to their defence. Learn from that.

Don’t think because you assist your kith and kin, they will automatically be grateful. Some will resent you for being more successful than them.