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# Simon Aranonu

Simon Aranonu is a Nigerian accountant and banking executive. He is the executive director of Large Enterprises at the Bank of Industry.

## Quotes

* Hard work has no alternative.
* There is always a God factor in every success.
* If you are not humble, you cannot learn. Invariably, you cannot grow.
* If you are not willing to work hard, forget success.
# Adaora Ukoh

Adaora Ukoh is a Nigerian Nollywood actress who has featured in movies including Thy Kingdom Come, Black Bra and Lekki Wives. She is the host of Divas Dynasty and the CEO of Adaora couture for over-sized women. She also spoke out when the Chibok girls went missing.

## Quotes

* if I saw challenges in the past, it has changed and I can tell my own stories my own way and produce my own works.
** Her interview with the nation
* I do not see any challenges in being a plus-size.
** Her interview with the nation
* Motherhood is the best thing that can happen to any woman.
** Her interview with the nation
* "" It’s not that the roles come in every time, but once I grab that role, I deliver""
* "" I think passion makes you want to have only the best.""
# Azeez Amida

Azeez Amida is a Nigerian business executive, author and speaker. He is the founder of Azeez Amida Foundation.He is CEO of Pan African Tower. He is also a member on the Forbes Council since 2022.

## Quotes

* Just be respectful and when people have opinions that are better than yours, acknowledge them.
* You must understand that everyone has an ego. Not just you.
* If you cannot hire to fill your weakness, you will always have a blindside.
* Success to me is a personal journey.
# John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven and Stenton

John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven and Stenton (5 July 1656 – 21 June 1708) was a Scottish peer, landowner and politician.

## Quotes

* I think I see our ancient mother Caledonia, like Caesar, sitting in the midst of our senate, ruefully looking round about her, covering herself with her royal garment, attending the fatal blow, and breathing out her last with an ‘Et tu quoque mi fili.’
** Speech in the Scottish Parliament against the Act of Union (2 November 1706), quoted in ‘Appendix to Vol. VI. No. I’, The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. VI. A.D. 1702–1714 (1806), column 143
* Lord Belhaven...did protest in his own name and in name of all these who shall adhere to him that this act is no valid security to the church of Scotland as it is now established by law in case of an incorporating union, and that the church of Scotland can have no real and solid security by any manner of union by which the Claim of Right is unhinged, our parliament incorporated and our distinct sovereignty and independency intirely abolished.
** Protestation in the Scottish Parliament against the Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Act (12 November 1706)
# David Coburn (politician)

David Adam Coburn (born 11 February 1959) is a Scottish politician and businessman. He was the leader of the Scottish UK Independence Party until he resigned in December 2018 and was a Member of the European Parliament for the Scotland constituency for the UK Independence Party between 2014 and 2018, as an Independent between December 2018 and February 2019 and then for the Brexit Party until the 2019 European Parliament elections.

## Quotes

* It's all right for the middle classes, the MSPs; it's great for them to have cheap nannies and gardeners and cleaners. But it's not very lovely for the ordinary working class man trying to get on in the world who finds his job has gone and his wage being compressed because so many people are coming in. That's why you'll find most Ukip support comes from working class and lower middle class people – not that we believe in class in Ukip. Those people are feeling the pressure and have been let down by the traditional parties
** "In with the Out crowd: on the streets with Ukip's David Coburn", The Herald (Glasgow, 17 June 2016)
* UKIP's main cause is taking on the establishment, and we've done it very well. We've turned the Conservative party more human than they used to be. They're the party of big business and they don't care very much about the people, but they've had to show they care about the people now. Similarly the Labour party are the party of the town hall bureaucrat, and their large pensions and large salaries. Now they've had to listen to the people.
** "Interview: What UKIP’s David Coburn wants for Kirkcaldy", Fife Today (18 May 2017)

## External links

* Official website
# Andrus Ansip

Andrus Ansip (born 1 October 1956) is the former Prime Minister of Estonia, former chairman of the Estonian Reform Party, and the current Vice President for the Digital Single Market in the European Commission.

## Quotes

* The world even accepted Russia holding the 2018 FIFA World Cup after it annexed Crimea. What should have been a denouncement instead manifested in the EU doubling its dependence on Russian gas after the Crimea annexation.
** Direct quote from interview: Estonian MEPs reject suspicions of Qatar influence voiced in Le Monde, news.err.ee, 27 Dec 2022.
* I cannot imagine that someone could go to Tõnismägi and in the darkness of the night, put the Bronze Soldier on the hook of the crane, and drive it away somewhere. This is not a solution acceptable for a constitutional state.
** At a press conference of the Estonian Government (2006-06-29).
* Someone who says something like that must have eaten some seeds; and not those kinds of seeds we grow in our fields! It might be helpful to put tinfoil in your hat!
** About the protesters against ACTA. .
# Ann Chiang

Ann Chiang Lai-wan, JP, (蔣麗芸, born 16 May 1955) is the chair of C&L Holdings and a member of Hong Kong Legislative Council. She is the second daughter of Chiang Chen, a Hong Kong entrepreneur.

## Quotes

On polling hours in Hong Kong:
* Polling time that lasts from 7:30 in the morning until 10:30 at night is definitely a form of torture. Whether for citizens, candidates, media personnel, government workers, or tellers, it's torture.

## References

* ↑ http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1223885-20151116.htm
# Pascal Dozie

Pascal Gabriel Dozie (born 9 April 1939 in Owerri, Imo State) is a Nigerian entrepreneur and businessman. He is the founder of Diamond Bank and the chairman of Pan-Atlantic University.

## Quotes

* The role of luck is the ability to prepare and plan well because if you plan well, all things being equal, the chances are that you’re going to succeed.
* But if you don’t plan well, lady luck will not shine on you. Even if it does, you will not recognize it.
# Alexander Duff (missionary)

Alexander Duff (25 April 1806, in Edinburgh – 12 February 1878, in Sidmouth) was a Christian missionary in India; where he played a large part in the development of higher education. He was a Moderator of the General Assembly and convener of the foreign missions committee of the Free Church of Scotland and a scientific liberal reformer of anglicized evangelism across the Empire. He was the first overseas missionary of the Church of Scotland to India. On 13 July 1830 he founded the General Assembly's Institution in Calcutta, now known as the Scottish Church College. He also played a part in establishing the University of Calcutta. He was twice Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland in 1851 and 1873, the only person to serve the role twice.

## Quotes

* While you engage in directly separating as many precious atoms from the mass as the stubborn resistance to ordinary appliances can admit, we shall, with the blessing of God, devote our time and strength for the preparing of a mine, and the setting of a train which shall one day explode and tear up the whole from its lowest depths.
** Alexander Duff, Missionary addresses delivered before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, in 1835, 1837, 1839. With additional papers on Female education, and the Danish, or earliest Protestant Mission to India, also in : Madhya Pradesh (India), Goel, S. R., Niyogi, M. B. (1998). Vindicated by time: The Niyogi Committee report on Christian missionary activities. ISBN 9789385485121
* Alexander Duff was convinced that “of all the systems of false religion ever fabricated by the perverse ingenuity of fallen men, Hinduism is surely the most stupendous” and that India was “the chief seat of Satan’s earthly dominion.”
** Alexander Duff, cited by S.R. Goel History of Hindu-Christian Encounters (1996)
* In 1840, the Reverend Alexander Duff briefly referred to the Aryan commonality by stating that the Hindus "can point to little that indicates their high original." But for the most part he also simply ranted that they "have no will, no liberty, no conscience of their own. They are passive instruments, moulded into shape by external influences—mere machines, blindly stimulated, at the bidding of another, to pursuits the most unworthy of immortal crea tures. In them, reason is in fact laid prostrate. They launch into all the depravities of idol worship. They look like the sports and derision of the Prince of darkness" (107).
** quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 1
# Nicholas Ferrar

Nicholas Ferrar (22 February 1592 – 4 December 1637) was an English scholar, courtier, businessman and man of religion. Ordained deacon in the Church of England, he retreated with his extended family to the manor of Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire, where he lived the rest of his life.

## Sourced

* The remembrance of death is very powerful to restrain us from sinning.For he should well consider the day will come(and he knoweth not how soon).....no more Suns will rise and set upon him;..no more seeing,no more hearing.no more speaking,no more touching,no more tasting,no more fancying,no more understanding,no more remembering,no more desiring,no more loving,no more delights of any sort to be enjoyed by him...let any man duly and daily ponder these things,and how can it be that he should dare.....
** Some final, unfinished thoughts a few weeks before his death aged forty-six, in 1637, Essay on Nicholas Ferrar, Jane Falloon, Heart of Pilgrimage-A Study of George Hertbert, Author House,Milton Keynes 2007 ISBN 978-1-4259-7755-9
# Jacqueline Gowe

Jacqueline Gowe is a Zimbabwean . She is the founder and director of Sweet Maungwe a brand of honey products which started in 2012, She is also an executive member of Bee Project of African Union. She is the Chairperson if the African Women in Animal Resource Farming and Agribusiness (AWARFA).

## Quotes

* Appreciate that Rome was not build in one day, so take time to perfect what you are doing and you will come up with a beautiful and unique product.
** Sunday Mail, (November 21, 2021)
* Learn from others and create networks.
** Sunday Mail, (November 21, 2021)
# John Galt (novelist)

John Galt (May 2, 1779 – April 11, 1839) was a Scottish writer, businessman and colonial administrator. He is now mostly remembered for his The Provost, The Member, and other satirical novels of political life.

## Sourced

* In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.
** The Ayrshire Legatees (Edinburgh: Blackwood, [1821] 1823) pp. 163-4.
* To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy.
** The Provost (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1822) p. 19.
* The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.
** The Provost (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1822) p. 20.
* From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes, a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.
** Ringan Gilhaize (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1823) vol. 3, p. 313.
* The sword is the key of heaven and hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of Allah, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting or prayer: whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven, and at the day of judgment his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim.
** Attributed to Muhammad, as quoted in The Wandering Jew (1820), p. 262

## Criticism

* This work is not for the many; but in the unconscious, perfectly natural, irony of self-delusion, in all parts intelligible to the intelligent reader, without the slightest suspicion on the part of the autobiographer, I know of no equal in our literature…This and The Entail would alone suffice to place Galt in the first rank of contemporary novelists.
** Samuel Taylor Coleridge, manuscript note written in his copy of The Provost; cited from Thomas Middleton Raysor (ed.) Coleridge's Miscellaneous Criticism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936), p. 344.
* Galt was the first writer to show the effects of the burgeoning industrial revolution, making him the first political novelist in the English language, and though his reputation has been overshadowed by Scott and Hogg, he is now recognised as one of the great writers of the age.
** Carl MacDougall, "Reformers and radicals in Scottish literature".
# Lew Grade

Lew Grade, Baron Grade of Elstree, Kt, O.St.J., KC*SS (25 December 1906 – 13 December 1998), born Lovat or Lev (Louis) Winogradsky was a Ukrainian-born British media proprietor and impresario.

## Quotes

* Marriage was the best business deal I ever made. After that, Jesus of Nazareth and The Muppets.
** Raymond Snoddy Grade's CRR battle plan defies logic", Campaign, 14 March 2007
# Paavo Haavikko

Paavo Juhani Haavikko (January 25, 1931 in Helsinki – October 6, 2008) was a Finnish poet, playwright, essayist and publisher, considered one of the country's most outstanding writers. He published more than 70 works, and his poems have been translated to 12 languages.

## Quotes

* War is time that has marched through the mind, and is later presented in
       such a way that boots are the be-all and end-all.
    Thus it is important to teach the soldier exactly how to treat the ghosts, how
       to address the fog, or
    how time and space appear on paper to describe absolutely everything.
    Do not say that was true in antiquity, as there the same sentence changed
       many times, petrified into mountains,
    precisely where it was open...
   * Paavo Haavikko, in: John Taylor (2010), Into the Heart of European Poetry. p. 329
# Rafic Hariri

Rafic Baha El Deen Al-Hariri (1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005) was the prime minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and from 2000 to 2004. He was assassinated in 2005.

## Quotes

* It's not a problem to put it up, It's a problem to take it down.
** Talking about the posters that appeared everywhere in Lebanon, of Hafez al-Assad, 1993.
* He(Yasser Arafat) was telling me about the situation he is living in. He said that all the buildings around his residence have been destroyed and they are -- they are on fire. And he told me that there is five people have been killed and they cannot move them. And about 40 persons were injured, and they cannot transfer them to the hospital.
** Speaking to CNN, about the attack on Arafat's compound, Ramallah, 29 March 2002.
* Yeah. Everybody has the right to defend himself, but by attacking headquarter of President Arafat, this will lead to -- to the security of Israel? I doubt that.
** Answering to the question that if Israel has right to defend themselves, 29 march 2002.

## Quotes about Rafic Hariri

* Rafik [Hariri], a former prime minister and a prominent Sunni businessman, was assassinated in 2005, along with twenty-two others, when explosives hidden in a van were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. Georges Hotel in Beirut. After a painful inquiry, the UN determined that the assassination was likely committed by members of Hezbollah with Syrian planning and logistical support. Hezbollah is the Shia political party and militant organization funded by Iran and Syria. Hariri's death was followed by a series of sectarian murders of other anti-Syrian politicians, compounding the long-standing frustration with Lebanon's failure to bring his killers to justice.
** Janine di Giovanni "Lebanon: About to Blow?", The New York Review of Books (8 February 2018).
** More specifically, the report was by the United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission, as headed by investigator Detlev Mehlis (known as the Mehlis report).
* This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.
** George Galloway (13 November, 2005), as cited in "Galloway heaps praise on Syrian regime", The Scotsman (18 November 2005).
** From a speech delivered at the University of Damascus, as televised on Al-Jazeera TV.
* Yet his political fortunes were always hostage to his up-and-down relations with Syria's presidents, now Bashar al-Assad and before him his father, Hafez al-Assad. For the most part, he appeared to steer an even course. Unlike some of the more impetuous Lebanese clan and religious leaders, Mr. Hariri carefully avoided direct criticism of Syria's role as Lebanon's overlord.
** "Rafik Hariri, Ex-Premier of Lebanon, Dies at 60", The New York Times (15 February 2005).
# Ekrem İmamoğlu

Ekrem İmamoğlu (born 4 June 1970) is a Turkish politician and the current Mayor of Istanbul.

## Quotes

* June 23rd showed us that no one, no individual or power, can stand in the way of the will of the people, no politician has the luxury to ignore that fact.
** As quoted in Istanbul's new mayor says 'no individual or power' can threaten democracy CNN
* There are some parts of Turkey where the refugees outnumber the actual residents. No country in the world would accept this and nor should they.
** As quoted in Mayor of Istanbul: Turkey badly managed refugees
* Our way is long. Our excitement is high. We have youth! We are the Turkish youth, that thirsty for justice and have full of faith in democracy! And we will never give up!
** After taking off his jacket and tie and rolling up his shirt sleeves, he said at the rally after the canceled Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality elections.
* Everything will be very nice.
** The most popular slogan used in the metropolitan mayoral elections
* God knows...
** Answering to BBC reporter's question as "Will you be the next President of Turkey"
# Christopher Haskins

Christopher Robin Haskins, Baron Haskins (born 1937 in Dublin, Ireland) is a British/Irish businessman and former member of the British Labour Party.

## Quotes

* Everybody fills in forms to say they are doing the right thing, but they don't actually look at the factory to see what is happening inside.
** Criticising European food safety laws; as quoted in City AM, Fri 15 Feb 2013 p. 23
# Carlos Slim Helú

Carlos Slim Helú (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos esˈlim eˈlu]; born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate and philanthropist who as of 2011 is the richest person in the world, for the second year in a row. He is the chairman and chief executive of telecommunications companies Telmex and América Móvil and has extensive holdings in other Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso SAB, as well as business interests elsewhere in the world.

## Sourced

* To have simple structures and organizations with minimal hierarchical levels, with human development and in house training of executive functions. To have flexibility and speed in making decisions. Operating with the advantages of the small business, which are what comprise big businesses.
** Secret Number One, The 10 Secrets of Slim, Interview with CNN Expansion, March 13, 2007, Translated by Kevin Andrew Woolsey.
# Alec Issigonis

Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS (November 18, 1906 – October 2, 1988) was a Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the groundbreaking and influential development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 1959.

## Quotes

* I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.
** The New York Times .
# John Seymour Keay

John Seymour Keay (30 March 1839 – 27 June 1909) was a Scottish businessman in India, and later a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom.

## Quotes

* It cannot be too well understood that our position in India has never been in any degree that of civilians bringing civilization to savage races. When we landed in India we found there a hoary civilization, which, during the progress of thousands of years, had fitted itself into the character and adjusted itself to the wants of highly intellectual races. The civilization was not perfunctory, but universal and all pervading - furnishing the country not only with political systems, but with social and domestic institutions of the most ramified description. The beneficent nature of these institutions as a whole may be judged from their effects on the character of the Hindu race. Perhaps there are no other people in the world who show so much in their character the advantageous effect of their own civilization. They are shrewd in business, acute in reasoning, thrifty, religious, sober, charitable, obedient to parents, reverential to old age, amiable, law-abiding, compassionate towards the helpless and patient under suffering.
** quoted in Gandhi, M K, Hindu Swam} or Indian Home Rule p. 106
# Tabitha Karanja

Tabitha Mukami Muigai Karanja (born 29 August 1964) is a Kenyan businesswoman, entrepreneur and industrialist. She is the founder and current Chief Executive Officer of Keroche Breweries, the first large brewery in Kenya owned by a non multinational company.

## Quotes

* There are no shortcuts in life and to be successful you need to go the extra mile. There is also no time, so don’t waste it and whatever you do, be it as a student, parent, employer or employee, always strive to be the best.
** "Quote of the Day by Tabitha Karanja", Lionesses of Africa (August 8, 2017)
* Women feel their products and want to provide quality as they pay attention to details, causing customers to keep coming back.
** "Quote of the Day by Tabitha Karanja", Lionesses of Africa (October 12, 2018)
* “I have always been driven by the need to prove that African women have what it takes to get things done and at the right time.”
** https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019-08-24-tabitha-karanja-the-woman-who-has-faced-off-with-multinationals/ 2019-08-24
* “I knew what I wanted in life and I worked day and night to achieve it.”
** https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019-08-24-tabitha-karanja-the-woman-who-has-faced-off-with-multinationals/ 2019-08-24
* “The way my challenges came, you could never try to think of giving up because if I ever gave up it meant that I could have hurt a generation, especially my children and anyone trying to come up in business. Then people would have later said… you remember that woman who started a beer business and closed down?”
** https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2014/11/tabitha-karanja-on-humble-beginnings-challenges-success-and-family/
* “The only person who fails is one who forgets that there are people behind him or her.
** https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2014/11/tabitha-karanja-on-humble-beginnings-challenges-success-and-family/
* “When you want to start any company – and this is my advice to all entrepreneurs- start where you are and with whatever you have.
** https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2014/11/tabitha-karanja-on-humble-beginnings-challenges-success-and-family/
* "My word to women; we should believe in ourselves because sometimes as women we tend to think that we are inferior."
** https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2014/11/tabitha-karanja-on-humble-beginnings-challenges-success-and-family/