“They wanted to take over my company, but I was ready to fight till the end.” — Bolanle Austen-Peters
Bolanle Austen-Peters said to me: “I like time.” Simple but powerful. “Time has been my friend.”
I learnt this powerfully over the past year, you know when I said to myself, you think you believe in yourself and then you realize that, no!
If you truly believed in yourself, if you truly knew yourself you would know that the gifts, the talents you have is inside you and because it’s inside you, you don’t need to hurry, you don’t need to hustle, you don’t need to compare.
Because as long as you are doing the work, if you know what is inside you, everything will come in time.
She says:
“They forget that I’m a lawyer, my dad is a lawyer, my sister is a lawyer, my brother is a SAN, my husband had a PhD from Oxford in Law.”
HER BUSINESS PARTNERS!
“You have something called hostile takeovers. They had invested and l I had a beautiful relationship with the original founders (of the bank). but then… the king died, and another king came that didn’t know.
So, we locked horns. And there is a tendency that because I am petite, and I look cute, that people don’t know that it’s not by size… he wanted a fight, I gave them. We fought – court, MOPOL. I kicked them out of my business. Who are you? Do you think because you have billions somewhere, you think you can intimidate? Nah.
I own my business. I kicked them out. You and your bank, go.
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