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 that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform.

When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

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

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

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.

Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.