Mo Ibrahim Quotes

First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

When you educate a woman, you create a nation.

The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of United Nations Mission in Kosovo.

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation.

Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

Allah is my witness. I will not be silent. I will never surrender.

Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Anything that is public display that will cause disruption to the beliefs of society of course would have to be curtailed.

We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality.

We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

I support all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

Islam is an ideology. It's not a race.

Certainly it is not a democracy.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.

Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.

The way forward for Africa is investment.

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

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.

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

I want to see the U.S become an Islamic nation.

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

People never confess to failure. They should.

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.