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" I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein. "

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" Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.' "

" Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying. "

" Cape Verde produces good people. "

" Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries. "

" Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society. "

" Multinationals don't pay taxes in Africa - we all know that. "

" If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it. "

" Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education. "

" Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders. "

" Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?' "

" I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything. "

" I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive. "

" The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well. "

" Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening. "

" The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging. "

" All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is. "

" I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism. "

" Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world. "

" Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet. "

" Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure. "

" The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings. "

" In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land. "

" In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line. "

" Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. "

" We measure everything - why not governance? "

" Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises. "

" I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man. "

" When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. "

" It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa. "

" Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela. "