- Businessman | May 3, 1946 -
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.
Mo Ibrahim
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Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.
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I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.
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I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.
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It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.
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Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up.
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From my father, I learnt kindness and how to talk straight.
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More people smile at me now I'm richer.
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People never confess to failure. They should.
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Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.
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Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they?
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A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development.
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