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

I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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

- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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…

- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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

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 job…

- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

[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 opportunitie…

- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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 …

- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala