Dambisa Moyo Quotes

The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.

Dambisa Moyo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: February 2, 1969

Topics

CultureInvestmentMoreLeftAid

The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

DogBetterWhoThanImplication

I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

Steve Coogan

CarPeopleCareYouFindStop

When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there.

Srikumar Rao

LeaderPeopleSayingSelfYouWant

For me, running against the Poles and Czechs would be like running against high school kids. And I hate all this gung-ho, run-for-the-red-white-and-blue attitude that the AAU spouts. If that's important to some people, fine, more power to 'em. But, damn it, I wish they'd leave me alone to do what I want to do - run against the best.

Steve Prefontaine

AttitudePowerAloneBestHateMe

I'm a compassionate person, so if a product is 15 percent more than what I typically pay, and I see the purpose, I'll foster that kind of sustainability for the farmers/fishers.

Tom Douglas

PurposePersonKindSustainability

I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.

Mike Wallace

VoiceFaceThinkAnchorMayDefied

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

Minna Antrim

TruthWomanComplimentNeverWho

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

Judith Rossner

TimeBookHusbandThreeLuckyFirst

But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.

Jason Schwartzman

New YorkMovingPlanningThinkYear

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

Donald Cargill

GodPeaceI AmMeFreeBelieve

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

David Steinberg

RespectMoneyYouBeingStartedGet

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.

Brad Pitt

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