Zitat des Tages von Mo Ibrahim:
Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.
It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.
If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.
Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.
Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa.
We measure everything - why not governance?
I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.
The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.
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out of U.N. - international, publicly funded bodies that neither you or I know their names, because they are completely outdated and still publicly funded because there are no sunset clauses.
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.'
The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.
When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.
The mobile industry changed Africa.
Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.
I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering.
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.
Cape Verde produces good people.
Experience counts in government even more than in business.
Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door.
Multinationals don't pay taxes in Africa - we all know that.
What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.
The way forward for Africa is investment.
I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.
Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.
Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging a path that we hope more will follow.
Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment.
Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius.
Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.
I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites.
If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.
People never confess to failure. They should.
I come from a typical family.
Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.
Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'
Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.
Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.