Miriam Altman Quotes

If you walk away when things aren't going well, I can guarantee you it's a recipe for failure. Participation doesn't guarantee success, but that grip, commitment, and continuation step by step is what's going to make us win.

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

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.

When a lot of other kids during breaks from school were playing or doing other fun activities, I was going to work with my dad, which maybe didn’t seem that fun at the time but I actually thought it was a pretty cool experience. Early entrepreneurship shapens mind

Learning some Mandarin can really change the overall experience.

Communications is everything for people. It’s the most fundamental thing. And people are getting cut out of communication if they’re not online. It is an incredible enabler, especially when you have an urban configuration like we do, or spatial configuration, where people are very far from opportunity. So it could be a game changer.

Young people should leave school with a recognised certificate, be channelled into post-school education and training, and then enabled to access to earning opportunities.

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

It's true that past efforts have failed. There's been a lot of energy and a lot of great ideas, but it's been inconsistent.

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

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.

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

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

Chinese urban planning is legendary, and great thought has been devoted to public spaces.

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