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Alassane Niang — Quotes from The Business Spotlight

Alassane Niang of Leverage To Live in Salt Lake City, UT discusses How Utah Entrepreneurs Build Business Credit, Separate Personal Risk, And Become Fundable Using The Three C's Banks Actually Recognize. These quotes come from the conversation on The Business Spotlight with Peter Anthony. Watch Alassane Niang's episode

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About Alassane Niang

owner, Leverage To Live

Alassane Niang is the owner of Leverage To Live, a Utah-based business credit, credit repair, and funding education company helping entrepreneurs become fundable. Born in Mali, raised in Brooklyn, and a University of Utah class of 2020 football alumnus, Alassane Niang built Leverage To Live after a $40,000 e-commerce loss tanked his personal credit and forced him to learn credit repair, consumer law, business structure, and funding strategy from the inside out. Today Alassane Niang teaches Utah operators how to master personal credit, separate it from business credit, structure entities banks recognize, and use other people's money to grow without draining the owner's personal finances.

Alassane Niang discusses How Utah Entrepreneurs Build Business Credit, Separate Personal Risk, And Become Fundable Using The Three C's Banks Actually Recognize.

You must go to a bank when you don't need it. That's when you build the safety net. Desperate money is the most expensive money there is.

, Alassane Niang

owner, Leverage To Live

Alassane Niang discusses How Utah Entrepreneurs Build Business Credit, Separate Personal Risk, And Become Fundable Using The Three C's Banks Actually Recognize.

Credit, cash flow, collateral. One of the three you're okay. Two you're exceptional. All three and nobody denies you.

, Alassane Niang

owner, Leverage To Live

Alassane Niang discusses How Utah Entrepreneurs Build Business Credit, Separate Personal Risk, And Become Fundable Using The Three C's Banks Actually Recognize.

Why would I leverage my money when I can leverage other people's money? My money goes into stocks. Their money builds the business.

, Alassane Niang

owner, Leverage To Live

Alassane Niang discusses How Utah Entrepreneurs Build Business Credit, Separate Personal Risk, And Become Fundable Using The Three C's Banks Actually Recognize.

There's good debt and bad debt. To get to wealth you must leverage debt. The rich understand that. The rest of us were taught to run from it.

, Alassane Niang

owner, Leverage To Live

Alassane Niang discusses How Utah Entrepreneurs Build Business Credit, Separate Personal Risk, And Become Fundable Using The Three C's Banks Actually Recognize.

Credit is the key that opened the door. The investment in e-commerce wasn't what I needed. It was the credit that was needed.

, Alassane Niang

owner, Leverage To Live