Mo Ibrahim Quotes

Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment.

Mo Ibrahim

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CommitmentGovernmentFullInterests

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

Michael F. Easley

SunsetBelieveRestGrowYearFast

I had a great manager in Jose Mourinho, who really helped me. He was always there when I needed him.

Mesut Ozil

GreatMeManagerHimAlwaysWho

People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas.

Tucker Carlson

PeopleDubaiVegasMoreHong Kong

I could also lose to lesser fighters than David Haye, based on the fact that styles make fights.

Tony Bellew

LoseMakeFactThanFightersFights

My fingertips are my favorite makeup brush! I especially like to apply my eye shadow with them, get it nice and smudgy. All my favorite makeup artists used their fingers to apply and their hand as a palette.

Josie Maran

ShadowEyeMakeupNiceHandArtists

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.

Donald Johanson

MeBackFindGoAfricaExcited

You've got to take the positives.

Craig Charles

YouTakeGotPositives

I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

Coolio

TimeWinLoserWinnerYouLose

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

Antiphanes

WrongRightQuestRight And Wrong

I've been watching and involved in presidential politics since 1960 when I first voted, and the Republican, the conservative candidate in the primary is always going to lean right and come back to the center for the general - the opposite for the Democrat.

Phil Gingrey

PoliticsBackConservativeWatching

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

Shelley Morrison

BusinessChildrenPetGoSinTeach

I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power.

Sebastian Junger

PowerMountainsTrainingWriteRight

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Mo Ibrahim