Quotes by Egyptian authors

"Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility"

"The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence"

"Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S"

"Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital"

"America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance"

"Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know"

"As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets"

"It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery"

"For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default"

"The world is on a bumpy journey to a new destination and the New Normal"

"Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies"

"Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?"

"We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries"

"The sphinx will always have to be looked after"

"I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them"

"Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons"

"I will reveal the secrets behind these doors"

"Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job"

"Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization"

"It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb"

"I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected"

"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world"

"Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold"

"I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet"

"As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence"

"It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery"

"Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities"

"I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war"

"Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons"

"Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security"