Moalem Ibrahim Quotes

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen. ~ Mo Ibrahim

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions. ~ Ibrahim Babangida

Own your mistakes, learn from them; apologize if you have to, and then, be unapologetically you. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society. ~ Mo Ibrahim

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order. ~ Ibrahim Babangida

War, is the emancipation of man; abortion, is the emancipation of woman. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day. ~ Mo Ibrahim

If the Bennu bird could be viewed in relation with the Ibis, it would explain why Thoth has it on his head. The symbolism has nothing to do with the Sun or any divine role it has, but on the contrary, the Sun is being subjugated by Thoth in one hand and a scepter on the other. The proof that this emblem means that the Sun had been conquered therein, is that Akhenaten's depictions show the fork end of the scepter handing over the Ankh directly from the Sun in total contrast to the stance of Thoth who possesses the Authority of 'was' which literally means 'overpower' to extract the Ankh from the Sun as he wishes. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

The impact of your life will go beyond your imagination. Live your life to be a blessing. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

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

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

While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence. ~ Mo Ibrahim

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

The devil messing with you doesn't break My heart as much you messing with each other. In those moments, you become like devils. You! My precious children!
(The cry of a weeping Father - GOD) ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

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

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. ~ Mo Ibrahim

Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

I am a Muslim. I am a practising Muslim. I don't - i accept proper relationship with a man and woman and the family life. It is not our business to knock at every door and checking people's orientation and casting aspersions or having prejudice against people. ~ Anwar Ibrahim

I am the very first person in modern history who successfully deciphers the circular zodiac of Dendera. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

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

By the way, the next time you get your cholesterol checked, make a note of the season. Because sunlight converts cholesterol to vitamin D, cholesterol levels can be higher in winter months, when we continue to make and eat cholesterol but there's less sunlight available to convert it. ~ Sharon Moalem

The Coupling Equation between the GPG and its KC is that of a Cube with a side length of 2.99 squared (that has the value of the ratio of the GPG's base width over its height in RC units). This Cube delivers a pyramidal geometry (based on this Coupling Equation) which has a base length of a tropical year measure. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

Treat every day like it's a new year because it is. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

The most perplexing yet marvellous phenomena to me so far, is that connecting the dots and seeing patterns of one's life only happens backward and time only happens forward.
You can't catch a pattern from the future and you can't catch time from the past. Only by the memories from the past a one tackles the complexity of the present and uncertainty of the future and while everything changes, the mechanism is always the same, and this itself is a pattern. ~ Nader Ibrahim

وكأن العالم كله اتحد ضدي وفي مقدمتهم أنا
As if the whole world united against me and i'm leading him ~ Khaled Ibrahim

I don't read books to finish them, I read to consume them. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

We had a lot of international help especially from the EU and USA, which helped us to get out of this phase of emergency, to give some dynamism to Kosova. ~ Ibrahim Rugova

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

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

If man conceptually gives people the freedom to make their own choices (without transgressing the limits of their own boundaries into the domains of the others) alongside leaving them to decide the adequate paces of these journeys, then she/he can guarantee the threads of this methodology to eventually converge at The Lord's Law. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

The Jew is a Vagabond by identity, he/she after all was never an Israelite. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

In evolutionary terms, that means we asked for it. ~ Sharon Moalem

Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one. ~ Mo Ibrahim

Sixty Royal Cubits probably correspond to a one week (i.e., ten days) on the ancient Egyptian calendar. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

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

Whether by using the Royal Cubits of 0.5236 meters or 0.5232 meters, the error is less than 0.9%. If the geometry of the Great Pyramid is that which counts in determining the proper conversion constant (rather than some unnecessary 'precision'), then the golden ratio suffices as a measure for the intended accuracy which demonstrates itself in the dimensions of this structure. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim