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" More people smile at me now I'm richer. "
Mo Ibrahim
Me
Richer
Smile
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" 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. "
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" If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it. "
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" All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is. "
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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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" Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news. "
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" 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. "
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" The mobile industry changed Africa. "
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" If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread. "
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" The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are. "
Mo Ibrahim
Citizens
Laws
Theory
" I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering. "
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Wanted
Never
Doubt
" The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections. "
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Elections
People
Freedom
" It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa. "
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Success
Would
Africa
" Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results. "
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Now
Results
Time
" It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do. "
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Time
Listening
Africa
" Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society. "
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Work
Cash
Phones
" Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries. "
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Thrown
Countries
African
" Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised. "
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Africa
Challenge
Potential
" I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. "
Mo Ibrahim
Narrative
Colonialism
Africa
" I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy. "
Mo Ibrahim
Toys
Small
Need
" Look at the international bodies that came out of U.N. - international, publicly funded bodies that neither you or I know their names, because they are completely outdated and still publicly funded because there are no sunset clauses. "
Mo Ibrahim
Because
Know
Sunset
" There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people. "
Mo Ibrahim
Trying
People
Better
" Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society. "
Mo Ibrahim
Important
Society
Rule Of Law
" Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time. "
Mo Ibrahim
Year
Bust
Lost
" Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy. "
Mo Ibrahim
Country
Almost
Africa
" Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great. "
Mo Ibrahim
Good
Management
Success
" Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.' "
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Faith
World
Financial
" Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa. "
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Huge
Transfer
Problems
" Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen. "
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Politician
Behind
Businessmen
" Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises. "
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Profit
React
Taxes
" Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity. "
Mo Ibrahim
Now
Opportunities
Future