"Investing in women is smart economics, and investing……" — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
"Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics."
—
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
17 Quotes by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has 17 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they…
-
When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.
-
The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best…
-
Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side…
-
I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed,
-
Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know…
-
[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it…
-
I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to…
-
Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do…
-
One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very…
-
Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So…
-
If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of…
See all 17 quotes by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala »
More Catching Quotes
This quote is filed under Catching Quotes,
one of 316 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
-
With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around…
— Marlon Brando
-
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
— Jeff Bridges
-
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and…
— Warren Buffett
-
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a…
— John Jay Chapman
-
The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a…
— Tommy Henrich
-
I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching…
— Bobby Jones
-
I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart…
— Edwin Way Teale
-
I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind…
— Fumihiko Maki
-
There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense…
— P.G. Wodehouse
-
Come away; poverty's catching.
— Aphra Behn
See all 316 Catching Quotes »