Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Isabel dos Santos

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos.

Last updated on November 22, 2024.

Isabel dos Santos is an Angolan businesswoman, the eldest child of Angola's former President José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled the country as a dictator from 1979 to 2017. Once considered Africa's richest woman according to Forbes magazine, with a net worth exceeding US$2 billion, she was dropped from the magazine's list in January 2021 after the freezing of her assets in Angola, Portugal and the Netherlands. She owes $340 million to the Portuguese company PT Ventures.

Angolan - Businesswoman | Born: 1973

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If you do something that's going to get somebody a job, then they'll be able to pay for their kid's school, and then their kid is going to be a doctor, and then that doctor is going to probably help who knows how many other people, so it's very motivating. Much more fun than going to the beach.

Isabel dos Santos

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.

Isabel dos Santos

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.

Isabel dos Santos

I've had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.

Isabel dos Santos

It's very difficult, I would imagine, to distinguish father and daughter. And maybe some of it comes as I'm doing my thing and my father being a very strong political African figure for so many years. Whatever he does is almost like some kind of cloud on top.

Isabel dos Santos

I work all the time. Seven days a week.

Isabel dos Santos

Ive had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.

Isabel dos Santos

If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

Isabel dos Santos