"The founding fathers of Nigeria had a dream of building a united, prosperous, and developed nation-state where social justice reigns. We also have to continue to dream because once we stopped dreaming then life is gone."

"Women tend to be less corrupt and more focused. There are many more great women leaders out there who need to be given a chance."

"I knew what I wanted in life and I worked day and night to achieve it."

"I shout peace from the mountains.. I preach peace in the caves Through peace we shall find equity & justice. I sing peace, blessed peace."

"A leader should serve from a place of love where they genuinely want the people they serve to have the best."

"Sometimes we will have to walk through fire. Stay focused, never give up, and keep your eye on the goal. You can overcome! Be a conqueror."

"When I was sixteen, I dreamt of my future and committed to focus, strive, and endure to ensure I could be the woman I envisioned."

"we love our country, we are so passionate about our country, and now we have proven that we are passionate about each other and about humanity."

"I am so proud of Kenyan, I can't tell you how it feels to see us come together like this."

"The only way you can build an economy is by building local businesses, whatever you buy from a foreign business, the money goes back to the foreign companies."

"If we support one another, we Kenyans, we Africans, we’ll be able to do even bigger than what the multinationals can do.."

"We have fought countless battles and we seemed to have sunk at times, but true to the word we believed we could make it, we rose above the barricades and the story is now told of how we made it and won the war."

"When you want to start any company – and this is my advice to all entrepreneurs- start where you are and with whatever you have."

"The way my challenges came, you could never try to think of giving up because if I ever gave up it meant that I could have hurt a generation, especially my children and anyone trying to come up in business. Then people would have later said… you remember that woman who started a beer business and closed down?"

"The only person who fails is one who forgets that there are people behind him or her."

"I have always been driven by the need to prove that African women have what it takes to get things done and at the right time."

"There are no shortcuts in life and to be successful you need to go the extra mile. There is also no time, so don’t waste it and whatever you do, be it as a student, parent, employer or employee, always strive to be the best."

"Women feel their products and want to provide quality as they pay attention to details, causing customers to keep coming back."

"My word to women; we should believe in ourselves because sometimes as women we tend to think that we are inferior."

"You pulled out of MacWorld and began hosting your own strictly scripted events. … Despite the gorgeous products and services you've created, we worry that you're headed down a road that may lead to your own demise."