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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 16 quotes by Iqbal Quadir Iqbal Z. Quadir (Bengali: ইকব ল জ ড. ক দ র, born August 13, 1958) is the founder of Gonofone and Grameenphone. He is currently the Founder and Director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founding co-editor of Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, a journal published by MIT Press. He is also a former fellow and lecturer of John F. Kennedy School at Harvard... Read full biography of Iqbal Quadir → 1 2 Ctrl → When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier. 0 Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign... → 0 During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies... → 0 I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance. 0 Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed. 0 A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan. 0 Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources. 0 China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power. 0 Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too. 0 The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road. 0 The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce. 0 A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and... → 0 The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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