7 Key Lessons That Tony Elumelu Taught Me While I was UBA Campus Ambassador
Nathaniel Ike
2X Forbes Africa 30 U’ 30 ????|Global Tech Hero (GTH)??| 2X Founder | 4X Author | Product Marketing Manager | I help businesses around Africa develop & implement marketing strategies & roadmap for their products to scale
A Very Happy Birthday To Sir Tony O. Elumelu, C.F.R?!!! The man I so much admire when it comes to business.??
He is that entrepreneur who has changed my life for good, but has no clue that he has done that much for me.
And since I have been listening to him for over 5 years , I’ve been able to:
??Beat my depression
? Quit the corporate rat race
? Started building leverage by accelerating startups.
However, here are 7 of the most powerful ideas that I have learnt from him indirectly:
1) “You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity to gain your financial freedom.”
Just like most people out there, I thought 9-5 was my path to wealth
But after working 60+ hrs a week for a particular tech start-up I worked with, I burned out.
So I quit to go all in for personal growth and entrepreneurship.
Stop selling your time, start building assets, and you will get RICH.
2) “Pick one desire, and one desire only. The universe will help you get it. Let go of everything else.”
Last year, I
? Started a blog
? Wanted to build an agency
? Planned to go to LinkedIn & Medium
This year, my ONLY focus is to accelerate?Techclout Africa?(my new start-up)
Do less, but better.
3) “Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now.”
I became a 9-5 worker since it seems it paid the most.
Yet all I dreamt of for years was leaving.
But I love TECH & INNOVATION , which is the path that i really do enjoy.
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4) “Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you'll be unstoppable.”
I have got to realize that an entrepreneur who can not communicate his ideas can’t really go far.
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5) “Be authentic to escape competition, find what you know how to do better than anybody because you love to do it and it feels like play.”
Earlier, I tried to shout the loudest.
Then I found a better way:
Sharing my story.
Remember: no one can compete with you at being you.
6) "If you’re evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path more painful in the short term."
Quitting my job at Quanta Africa was scary.
And that very First year was rocky as hell.
But a path is clearing up & I’ve never been more excited with my current path of accelerating my own start-up ideas into becoming real start-ups.
Don't pick short term pain avoidance for long term regret.
7) “The rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside his control.”
5 years ago, I was a ticking time-bomb waiting to blow up.
But as my health went down the gutter, I heard a voice say: "happiness is a choice."
You get to choose your perspective.
Now if you are a first-gen who went to college, has a stable job and is constantly breaking generational barriers;
Congratulations- you probably worked twice as hard as your peers.
And you still go through it.
Give yourself a pat on the back...
I am rooting for you!
CHEERS!!!
Techpreneur I Growth Enthusiast l Product Manager l Building Figorate
1 年This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing sir.