133 Quotes by Mo Ibrahim

It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.

Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward.

Everywhere in Africa, you see Indian, Chinese, Brazilian businesses. Other than Coca Cola and the oil companies, it is very rare to see American businesses.

I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.

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.

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

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

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.