I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.

The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.

I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigerias growth and development.

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "completes what nature left unfinished.

Believe what you want But don't dumb down what Jesus said.

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get to the bottom of him.

Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

First you harmonize, then you customize.

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing.