“The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense becau...” — Mo Ibrahim Quote

“The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.”

“Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.'”

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

“Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.”

“It was the first fight I had with my father. My father basically said, why are you going to business school? You're just going to get married and have kids and you won't use your degree. And it's expensive. We had a knockdown, drag-out fight, which was great. Yeah. In the driveway. My father said, 'You're on your own.'”