Quadir Quotes

#1. Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

Iqbal Quadir

#2. 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 show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.

Iqbal Quadir

#3. When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

Iqbal Quadir

#4. The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

Peter Ustinov

#5. Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.

Iqbal Quadir

#6. 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 aid.

Iqbal Quadir

#7. Hoping something will happen soon, so she can sit down & watch it with a fresh bowl of popcorn.

Brian Andreas

#8. 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.

Iqbal Quadir

#9. The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

Iqbal Quadir

#10. Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

Iqbal Quadir

#11. I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

Kevin Smith

#12. The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Confucius

#13. Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

Iqbal Quadir

#14. A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

Iqbal Quadir

#15. We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

Iqbal Quadir

#16. The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and commerce is certainly a force that could add value for Afghanis.

Iqbal Quadir

#17. Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

Iqbal Quadir

#18. You are not a true success unless you are helping others be successful.

Jon Gordon

#19. Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

Iqbal Quadir

#20. A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

Iqbal Quadir

#21. And don't tell me that you were sick because no one is sick for two weeks and can't even make a phone call! Well, unless she's patient zero at the beginning of a zombie apocalypse.

Erin Watt

#22. A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Theodore Roosevelt

#23. In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.

Iqbal Quadir

#24. There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Brian K. Vaughan

#25. The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.

Iqbal Quadir

#26. I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.

Iqbal Quadir