He Had No Formal Education But He Hired The
Most Educated People To Run His Businesses – African Billionaire Razak Akanni Okoya’s Success Story

While education is vital, it is just one component of a person’s overall success. This fact has been proven by African entrepreneurs that are renowned billionaires. They have consistently recorded commercial success without a formal education.

According to them, success is being disciplined and taking the right actions daily, whether convenient or not.

This was how they gained the business mastery that they could not have learnt within the four walls of a school. Ironically, they hire the most educated people to run their businesses.

Razak Akanni Okoya
He is the owner and founder of the Eleganza group, which manufactures various home products and kitchenware. The company also serves the West African market.

The industrialist only has a primary education from Oke popo, Lagos’ famed Ansar-un-deen Primary School. He became a billionaire and the Aare of Lagos despite having just primary education.

Rasak began his entrepreneurial career working in his father’s tailoring shop. The years of expertise from the shop gave him the boldness to venture out on his own.

During this period, he was penny-wise. He put away every cent he earned till he had £20. With his father’s consent, he used the money and the £50 from his mother to import products from Japan.

His lack of formal education did not impede him from achieving success, as his name became a household name.

Source: Businesselitesafrica

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