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" Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa. "
Mo Ibrahim
Huge
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" I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites. "
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" I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything. "
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" The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings. "
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" Societies are not sustainable without institutions. "
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" I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people. "
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" 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. "
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" Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy. "
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" The fight against Ebola cannot undermine the fight against poverty. "
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" I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man. "
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" The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated guys - the Germans and Japan - were out. The occupied countries had no voice. That was fine in '45, but today, Germany rules Europe, frankly. They are driving Europe but have no voice. "
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" There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it. "
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" The mobile industry changed Africa. "
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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. "
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" The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed. "
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" Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain vigilant and not get complacent. "
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You
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" I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering. "
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Never
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" If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects. "
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" Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. "
Mo Ibrahim
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Doing
" Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it. "
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" In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land. "
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" Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?' "
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" Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide? "
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Voice
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" You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another. "
Mo Ibrahim
Place
You
Over
" Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem. "
Mo Ibrahim
You
Problem
Taxes
" Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there. "
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Market
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Phone
" Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view. "
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" Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table. "
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" African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints. "
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Limitations
" Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world. "
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" 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. "
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