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“Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.”

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Experience counts in government even more than in business.

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People never confess to failure. They should.

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There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people.

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I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office.

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If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.

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Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.

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I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

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