133 Quotes by Mo Ibrahim

More people smile at me now I'm richer.

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.

The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated guys - the Germans and Japan - were out. The occupied countries had no voice. That was fine in '45, but today, Germany rules Europe, frankly. They are driving Europe but have no voice.

Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa.

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

I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.

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

When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.

If a European guy came to Africa and said hey guys, you don't have good - people could tell him to go to hell. You are an imperialist. You are a colonialist. Who are the hell are you to come and tell us what to do? I'm an African. Whatever I say nobody in Africa tell me well, it's not of your business. It is my business.