Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

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

Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain vigilant and not get complacent.

We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime.

Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans.

Everywhere in Africa, you see Indian, Chinese, Brazilian businesses. Other than Coca Cola and the oil companies, it is very rare to see American businesses.

Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society.

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

I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites.

Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.

I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering.

Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.

What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.

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

When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.'

Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.

The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.

Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.

Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.