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Isabel dos Santos is an Angolan businesswoman, Africa's richest woman and the eldest child of Angola's former President José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled the country from 1979 to 2017.
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“There are no proceeds from contracts or public contracts, or money that has been deviated from public funds.”
I believe that goals are achieved when ambition is combined with skill and determination.
“We have taken upon ourselves to build these banks.”
This is a political trial.... you have a woman who has been chosen to set an example as a scapegoat. that is me.
Be willing to assess yourself and determine exactly what it is that you’re capable of doing best. If you have weaknesses in certain areas, develop them into strengths.
Leverage your pre-existing talents and knowledge. If you’re going into a field that you know or have past experience with then you have a competitive edge.
“What we really want to see is people living in African cities to go from living in dwellings to living in homes,”
“There’s nothing in the report that mentions me,”
I think there's lots of people with family connections but who are actually nowhere. If you're hard-working and determined, you will make it, and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.
“This investment generated a large amount of return for all the parties that invested jointly,”
‘I believe in talent and, every day, I bet on empowering the next generation of leaders. Because the development of Africa and my country is my priority as an Angolan businesswoman.’
“I’ve been managing companies for a long time, starting them from small, building them up, going through every single stage of what it takes for a company to be successful,”
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