Miriam Altman Quotes

I'm a very driven personality, there's no doubt about that. For success in bringing about this kind of change, you have to be pretty ruthlessly focused. I deal with intense stuff at Telkom and it's an enormous challenge and there's pain and pleasure. It's very exciting, but what if you fail? You can't fail.

The last three years at Telkom have been intense, challenging, rewarding - overall an incredible and life-changing experience.

Learning some Mandarin can really change the overall experience.

I think that the key problem we face is unproductive ways of doing things. I don't think it’s the technical problem.

Performance of tertiary education institutions will specifically need to be targeted. One option is to tie some part of the government’s institution grant to achieving improved governance, capacity, quality and labour market alignment.

People ask about growth. The only way to have sustained growth is actually to have inclusion. It is physically whatever anybody thinks.

Eskom could not build up sufficient reserves to cover the costs of maintenance, replacement or new capacity.

The only way to have sustained growth is by building human capability, and the reality is the economy. You know, economists, I guess, confuse people, and we're all trained to think about business, but it's not actually a bunch of businesses; it's actually a bunch of people doing a whole lot of things. It’s actually a human system, and that's how we need to treat it to move on.

A visit to Shanghai begs an exploration of art, fashion, design, and technology.

China has moved beyond the stage of imitation and has a growing community of designers and innovators.

One of the most important ways of growing, expanding and developing is to have easy movement of people between countries.

I've learned over the years that leadership is everything.

when they do understand, I’ve experienced more random acts of kindness in China than anywhere else.

Staff were quite probably going to say one thing, do another, and wait for Maseko to pass through.

The fastest route back to economic activity, charted in a way that enables physical distancing, will always be the best one. It is always better to generate revenue, in companies and through tax, than it is to save companies or borrow for the shortfall.