Living the UAE dream: Dubai-based entrepreneur Anis Sajan pays tribute to the country on its 51st anniversary

  • Date: 01-Dec-2022
  • Source: Khaleej Times
  • Sector:Financial Markets
  • Country:UAE
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Living the UAE dream: Dubai-based entrepreneur Anis Sajan pays tribute to the country on its 51st anniversary

'The UAE is my home away from home'

Published: Wed 30 Nov 2022, 9:46 PM

Life can be challenging, but it’s your mindset that determines success. Giving up in time of adversity is easy. However, fighting relentlessly for your dreams, and turning them into reality, requires something greater than persistence.

Many may dismiss such “lofty thoughts” as moral aphorism, but Anis Sajan, vice-chairman of Danube Group, is a shining example of the ‘UAE dream’, which quite like the ‘American dream’, has come to fruition because of his three decades of hard work and an unflinching belief in certain core values that he steadfastly stood by even when the going got tough in his formative years back home in Mumbai, India, in the late 1970s.

Anis lost his father Asker Ali Sajan, who worked as a clerk at Nathani Steel, at a tender age of eight years and his world — a tenement at Pant Nagar, Ghatkopar — came “crashing down overnight”.

He reminisces how his father was a beloved person in the company when the entire workforce showed up for his burial. The father’s premature demise made his elder brother — Rizwan, who is eight years older to Anis — the sole breadwinner of the