"When it comes to doing my job, I…" — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
"When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag."
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17 Quotes by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has 17 quotes on this site.
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The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they…
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When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.
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The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best…
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Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side…
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I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed,
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Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.
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Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know…
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[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it…
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I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to…
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Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do…
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One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very…
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Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So…
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More Ego Quotes
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They…
— Karen Armstrong
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
— Karen Armstrong
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
— Alan Ball
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We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom…
— Roseanne Barr
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The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.
— David Beckham
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
— Arnold Bennett
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But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too…
— Anna Benson
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
— Annie Besant
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You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are…
— Jello Biafra
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one…
— Theodor Adorno
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