Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.
I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.
Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.
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.
Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform.
[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty of opportunities to invest in stable, growing, exciting economies where there's plenty of opportunity.
Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies
Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.
The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.
I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.
In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.