Mo Ibrahim Quotes

The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging.

Mo Ibrahim

• Friend
• Moving
• Found
• Starting

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Job
  • Me

• There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Dark

• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Past
  • Friend
  • Tree

• The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Starting

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Moving
  • Start
  • Gym

• He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Book
  • Want
  • Friend

• I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Moving
  • Sea
  • Happen

• Back, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Friend
  • Adversity

• ...life is lonely, life is empty. Love isn't everything. A dear true friend is more than love-the serge outlasts the silk.

  

  Clifford Odets
  • Life
  • True
  • Friend

• We've got to be moving together, working together, leading the country together, and ensuring that we achieve the objectives that our alliance has set out for itself.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Country
  • Together
  • Moving

• I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, 'I'm not watching this 'True Blood.' Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • True
  • Friend
  • Sad

• I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Moving

• I'm always moving furniture and things around in my house.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • House
  • Moving

• A great director is someone who makes you feel like you're moving forward.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Great
  • Moving

• Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'

  

  Amy Adams
  • World
  • Faith
  • Moving

• I would like to work with The Weeknd. That's my boy, though; that's my friend.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Work
  • Friend
  • Boy

• I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like any other surfer, I try to read the ocean. It's always changing and moving - doing its own thing - so you need to learn how it works and how to position yourself.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Moving
  • Unique
  • Ocean

• 2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bunch of money, buying a bunch of Twitter. I saw my friend fired as CEO of Twitter. Uber was growing like a weed. As these companies get bigger and bigger, there's more and more friction. Being public was the last thing I wanted to do at the time.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Time
  • Money
  • Career

• You are handed your job as the old king or queen dies... It is not a life sentence, but a life of service.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Life
  • Job
  • Service

• Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Know
  • Married
  • Director

• If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Trying
  • May
  • Soul

• No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

  

  William Kingdon Clifford
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Duty

• The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging.

  

  Mo Ibrahim
  • Friend
  • Moving
  • Found