“I’m not a person who likes to throw away money. I spend more money on charitable things than myself. Luckily, myself and my children have been very disciplined.
That is why if you look at it today, because of the way I run my lifestyle, I don’t have any home outside Nigeria. I stay in hotels. Quite, Simple.
My life is not very lavish, and I get very embarrassed if I try to show that I have money. I don’t.
“I think I always advise people that it’s better to be very commercial. In Lagos I drive myself around on weekends. I ask my driver to go have rest and then I drive myself around. I still visit the normal friends I grew up with.
My house is open 24 hours a day for them. I mingle with everybody. That’s the only way to get to know what’s going on”.
Aliko Dangote, Africa’s Richest Man.
