Quotes by Isabel dos Santos

About Isabel dos Santos:

Isabel dos Santos is the daughter of Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos. She is an Angolan investor. She is considered by Forbes to be the richest woman in Africa and the most powerful and richest woman in her country. In 2013, according to research by Forbes, her net worth had reached more than three billion US Dollars, making her Africa’s first billionaire woman.
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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 clou...

Isabel dos Santos

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 motiv...

Isabel dos Santos

I work all the time. Seven days a week.

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

Author Bio

  • NameIsabel dos Santos
  • DescriptionAngolan investor
  • Born1973
  • CountryAngola
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur