Mo Ibrahim Quotes

We all have to acknowledge a simple fact: Africa is growing.

Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

It is inconceivable that the rise of Asia could happen without the rise of the Indian subcontinent.

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.

China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand.

Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new frontier in America's international economic policy.

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.

Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

For the first time since the 15th century, China is becoming a major economic power.

My final aim is to bring Iran, within twenty years, to the same level of civilization and progress as will be enjoyed by the most highly developed countries. During the last ten years the degree of our backwardness has been halved, but it is this remaining backwardness which will be the most difficult to combat.

India, China, and Latin America have a tremendous stake in the people's century. As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble.

If you want to improve a country, you first need to know it, to listen to it.

… only today, or yesterday at the earliest, after the long millenniums of man's life on this planet, has he acquired the technical skill, the command over the forces of nature, the physical power to produce enough and more for all his children upon the face of the earth.

We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.

The only real growth industry in the Middle East has been population.

China's growth and stability is a vital issue for all nations.

Africa is on the rise.

This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.

There is a direct connection that cannot be severed between the diplomatic process and growth and prosperity.

The U.S. is becoming an industrial heartland again.

America's role in the global economy inevitably was going to diminish; we're smaller relative to - as China, India, other emerging markets grow.

The founding generation would be amazed. It would be surprised. I think it would be very impressed by what has happened since then in terms of our exploding population; in terms of the success of this country economically and otherwise.