Mo Ibrahim Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
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  • Birth: May 3, 1946

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WaterSurviveFishEnvironmentYou

When somebody tells you that - 'You've never played this sport, but I think you can be a playmaker' - you think the guy's crazy.

Jimmy Graham

CrazyThinkYouNeverGuySomebody

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

John F. Kennedy

FreedomHistoryResponsibilityWorld

I read a magazine called 'Cinefantastique' that had just come out with a making of 'Star Wars' issue. They had some very long and detailed interviews with a whole bunch of people at ILM. I think I memorized that whole magazine.

John Knoll

PeopleThinkLongOutStarWhole

The fact of the matter is that whether it's in London or Egypt or Turkey or New York or Washington, we have to pay the price of guarding ourself, which is internal vigilance.

John Reid

New YorkPriceNewWashingtonEgypt

It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.

Steven Squyres

LifePeopleLearnQuestionsMean

When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.

Mary J. Blige

AngerForwardYouHoldMove

So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it, but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet.

Mitchell Baker

GoodBusinessControlInternetView

The face is the soul of the body.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

SoulFaceBody

Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

GoodEvilChooseKnowSpiritAlways

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.

Daymond John

PotentialWorthDreamEntrepreneur

I don't worry too much about typecasting. I just figure, one way or another, I'm going to find another role.

Christopher Lloyd

WorryFindToo MuchWayGoingRole

Projective geometry is all geometry.

Arthur Cayley

Geometry

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