Mo Ibrahim Zitate auf Englisch

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What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.

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It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.

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

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Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.

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Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa.

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We measure everything - why not governance?

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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 Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.

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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out of U.N. - international, publicly funded bodies that neither you or I know their names, because they are completely outdated and still publicly funded because there are no sunset clauses.

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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.'

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The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.

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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.

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The mobile industry changed Africa.

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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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I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering.

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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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Cape Verde produces good people.

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Experience counts in government even more than in business.

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Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door.

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

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What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.

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The way forward for Africa is investment.

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I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

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Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.

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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.

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Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment.

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Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius.

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

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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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If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.

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People never confess to failure. They should.

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I come from a typical family.

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Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

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

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

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Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

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