Quotes by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - Page 1

When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Jobs
Ego
Handbags
Job
Doing
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I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Believe
Problem
Should
Solutions
Believe Problems I Believe
Also
Find
Believe I Believe Problems
Problems
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Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigerias growth and development.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Girl
Foundation
Growth
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Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Development
Foundation
Growth
Nigeria
Educating
Young Girls
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I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Bed
Cold
Hardship
Sleep
Also
Anytime
Feather
Floor
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Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Men
Father
Thinking
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I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Wonderful
Man Father Me
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Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Education
Girl
Women
Smart
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When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Teacher
Economy
Mother
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I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Country
Economy
Felt
Nigeria
Corrupt
Image
Succumb
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If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Economy
Malaria
Mean
People
Base
Production
Save
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My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Savings
Nigerian
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No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians. Everyone has to be committed from the top to the bottom to fight it.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Bottom
Committed
Corruption
Fight
Except
Nigerians
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One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Chaotic
Interesting
African
Dynamic
Interesting People
Million
Nigerian
Sub-Saharan
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The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Jobs
Feet
Today
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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 be in Africa, think about investing.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Forever
Missing
Thinking
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Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Running
Parent
Saving
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I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Fetch
Poor
Poverty
Water
Eat
People Poor Live
Stream
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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 that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Destiny
Grateful
Tired
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Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Leadership
Manage
Proportion
Account
Africa
Enterprises
Executive
Small
Increasingly
Large
Legislative
Production
Positions
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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 should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Jobs
Government
Winning
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Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use the same aid to build the same infrastructure in our countries?
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Country
Spain
Use
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Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try to do? We introduced a fiscal rule that de-linked our budget from the oil price.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Nigeria
Oil
Reputation
Corrupt
Budget
Finances
Introduced
Price
Rule
Sector
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[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty of opportunities to invest in stable, growing, exciting economies where there's plenty of opportunity.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Opportunity
Country
Mean
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The U.K. and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid. It is all the resources that were taken from Africa, including human, that built these countries today! So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the defensive.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Including
Resources
Taken
Africa
Aid
Countries
Defensive
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From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Army
Cooking
Middle
Nigeria
Our Time
Side
War Time Father
Fought
Joined
Spent
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I'm trying to tell you that there's a new wave on the continent. A new wave of openness and democratization in which, since 2000, more than two-thirds of African countries have had multi-party democratic elections. Not all of them have been perfect, or will be, but the trend is very clear.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Clear
Democratic
Openness
Perfect
Wave
Will New More
Since
African
Continent
Countries
Trend
Two-Thirds
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When I became finance minister, they called me Okonjo-Wahala - or 'Trouble Woman.' It means 'I give you hell.' But I don't care what names they call me. I'm a fighter; I'm very focused on what I'm doing, and relentless in what I want to achieve, almost to a fault. If you get in my way, you get kicked.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Finance
Achieve
Care
Don't Care
Fighter
Focused
Hell
Names
Relentless
Trouble
Very
Me
Almost
Get
Became
Doing
Call
Woman
Fault
Give
Minister
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Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala / Economist
Technology
Missing
Phones
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