‘I learnt business from my mother’ – Tony Elumelu champions women’s economic leadership.
WIMBIZ: ‘I learnt business from my mother’ – Tony Elumelu champions women’s economic leadership Billionaire businessman Tony Elumelu has credited his mother with teaching him the fundamentals of business, using her experience as a small restaurant owner to emphasise the importance of women's economic leadership and participation in Africa's development.
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By Enitan Abdultawab Billionaire businessman Tony Elumelu has credited his mother with teaching him the fundamentals of business, using her experience as a small restaurant owner to emphasise the importance of women’s economic leadership and participation in Africa’s development.
Elumelu said his earliest lessons in entrepreneurship, including risk management, cash flow, customer relations, discipline and resilience, came from watching his mother build a business and provide for her family. Elumelu, who spoke on Friday at the 25th Annual Conference of Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ), held at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, recalled how his mother’s hard work shaped his understanding of business. I started with a mother, a mother who ran a small restaurant and worked harder than anyone I’ve ever known. “I watched her turn very little into a living, and a living into a future for our children.
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