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Ibukun Awosika
18 quotes
“I come from a place where there are opportunities staring you in the eye, but it's looking for the people who have the heart and the courage to do it and do it right.”
Ibukun Awosika (born 1962) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Season Life Journal (16 August 2015) by Abraham Ologundudu
“Sometimes you have to take a hard decision and when you take such a decision, you have to stand by it. It’s not everybody who sees what you are seeing.”
Ibukun Awosika (born 1962) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in "8 business quotes from First Bank Chairperson Ibukun Awosika", 26 February 2013
“As a people, we have the power of choice. We get to choose who we are, what we become, and what we do.”
Ibukun Awosika (born 1962) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In her talk at Global Leadership Summit, 2021.
“When you are pursuing your dreams and trying to leave a legacy, you will find help.”
Ibukun Awosika (born 1962) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During a Punch Newspaper Interview in 2016
“There are Challenges everywhere you must have Tenacity; you must have the strength of character not to cheat.”
Ibukun Awosika (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We will not stop until every Nigerian girl-child has found their voice and found their pocket.”
Ibukun Awosika (born 1962) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking in an interview about herself (April 18 2018)
“Financial services are the lifeblood of an economy, enabling households and businesses alike to save, invest, and protect themselves against risk.”
Ibukun Awosika (born 1962) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking in an interview about herself (April 18 2018)
“Success in financial inclusion entails reaching these users with products that can significantly improve financial lives.”
Ibukun Awosika (born 1962) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking in an interview about herself (April 18 2018)
“We should criticise ourselves, but we should criticize to build. We should see a problem and be angry about it and innovate and seek to find the solution to the problem because we know why we want to do it. Because we know that this country must work.”
Ibukun Awosika (born 1962) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking at The Platform (1 May 2019)
“I want my nation to work, I want to be able to tell my children this is why I say you must live in Nigeria and nowhere else.”
Ibukun Awosika (born 1962) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The task of Nation Building (2019)
“The Nigerian woman is smart, beautiful, fashionable, driven, purposeful and has the capacity to take on the world without fear, that is not a tool you leave at home when you are building leadership”
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“For a country that needs help, women are key to the success of Nigeria.”
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“Wherever you sit, look behind you, how has it benefited other women constructively because sometimes, you can’t do what your friends want, but you must do what is strategically effective and positive for building the power of getting women to the table.”
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“. I chose to maintain our integrity and retain our credibility.”
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“When I started, I displayed some level of commitment to what I was doing and that is what kept me on the track up till date.”
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“I said to myself I could do this, and I could do it right”
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“In life, you decide on those things that are important to you,”
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“I also apply wisdom most of the time”
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