Iqbal Quadir famous quotes

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

#Office #Village #Poverty

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

#Freedom #Bottles #Approach

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources,
-- Iqbal Quadir

#Country #Poor #Resources

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

#America #People #Car

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

#Technology #Innovation #World

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

#Wind #Energy #Would Be

Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.
-- Iqbal Quadir

#Country #America #Entrepreneur

The Foreign Office knows no secrets.

We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance