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Annual Meeting Quotes - Saturday 31 January and Sunday 1 February
Sunday 1
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"We require a different set of responses from politicians, a different set of behaviours. ... It's time for action."
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Maria Ramos, Group Chief Executive, Transnet, South Africa; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009
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Saturday 31
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The economies of the world now have the resilience and ability to come back, but quite frankly will come back differently.
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James E. Rogers, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke Energy Corporation, USA |
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The serious long-term investor [understands] the nature of our business, but also will give you the benefit of the doubt even during difficult short-term periods if you explain to them the challenges and the difficulties, but more importantly, indicate to them a credible, good long-term plan that will allow your company to do well in the future.
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Patrice T. Motsepe, Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals, South Africa
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We have reached the crisis in the way we operate some of our institutions and we have got to make sure that they are based on the values that every sensible person would support and not making some exceptions for a financial institution because it is in difficult territory or it's got to take ridiculous kinds of risk. We've got to build them around these values. And then we've got to build the structures of transparency and disclosure, the cross-border supervision as well as the ability of our international institutions to help.
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Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of United Kingdom |
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Inter-generational poverty can be broken if we invest in girls.
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Ann M. Veneman, Executive Director, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), New York; Chair, Global Agenda Council on the Welfare of Children
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Investment in women is smart economics. Investment in girls is even smarter economics because they are at the centre of development.
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director, World Bank, Washington DC |
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Cultures are made to be torn apart. ... If [Women’s entitlement] works for people, nothing in the world can stop it.
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Muhammad Yunus, Managing Director, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
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We have to re-build our society. There are so many investments opportunities from the private sector that can be done in reducing carbon emission.
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Lars G. Josefsson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Vattenfall, Sweden |
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It's not possible to achieve good results fighting malaria with the government alone, so we include business and civil society. The private sector contributes because they see results, not because of charity. A healthy workforce is a positive impact for their businesses.
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Luisa Dias Diogo, Prime Minister of Mozambique
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