Businesspeople from Ghana

"Have discussions with God on the go. Be business-focused and ignore distractions. Be humble and respect all. Do not seek confirmation from another. Only God. Trust your intuition. Move above the best speed you can. When you identify your leading product, run with it."

"“Start with the limited capital you have, never give up, seek knowledge on ideas before and after initiating, diversity in skills within an entrepreneurial team is an important factor for success, networking is an important thing in the business world and passion for a business is good but not enough, commitment and determination sustain it.”"

"I enjoy the fact that every day brings a new challenge and a fresh opportunity for me to make a positive impact on our society through the flagship programme of This Morning."

"When you are passionate about something, your approach and input is always different."

"President Akufo-Addo, I will give you show down... Vice President Bawumia, I will give you show down"

"Ghana's situation so bad that change is now calling us"

"A lot of people in Ghana are afraid to speak the truth because they are afraid they will be called arrogant. When you speak the truth, they say you are arrogant, they say you are insulting"

"I always reciprocate actions and before I come out, you would have done it for several times that I did not even say anything and one day, when I come out, because it is me, then the public begin to have problems with my response and I think that is unfair"

"If we really want to develop this country, we should all have confidence, [be] bold, [be] honest, [be] sincere, [be] disciplined and change this country. But a situation where you have responded to somebody’s allegations and insults and they ignore what was said against you and reprimand you for what you have said, I think is wrong"

"I have told you severally that in my tenure, if you are caught and punished, I won't heed to pleadings from anyone, be it a pastor, a chief, a politician or my family member"

"That will compel everyone to be honest and truthful in the interest of Ghana"

"With my experience as a businessman, I will create jobs for the youth. I'll run Ghana like a business until an unprecedented transformation is achieved to benefit every citizen."

"As youth, bring together all passionate, selfless and patriotic Ghanaian citizens and use your combined knowledge, skills, ideas and other resources to support the needed development activities in the various communities with a focus on the country’s development agenda"

"Sucess is how well you place yourself in society to affect other people's lives"

"The AG has on several occasions engaged me at odd hours to help him build a case against A1, And I have evidence on that,"

"If he pushes me, I will open Pandora’s box. I don’t understand why the AG will accuse me of defending A1 when I’m here to defend myself,"

""when you sleep with a man, don't think he's pleased with everything he sees from your body. To all men reveling in this, read John 8 verses 1 to 11."

"if you think Mahama is a Womanizer, throw a stone at him. I want to see one person in this country""

"He warned men in the country not to ridicule Mahama but rather learn lesson from his experience."

"The maverick lawmaker referenced a biblical story where Jesus pardoned a woman condemned to be a prostitute to defend John Mahama."

"also chided the actress for being 'cheap' and 'ungrateful'."

"I am extremely proud and excited to announce my role as the new National Director for Miss Universe Ghana. I will be working diligently with my team to make sure we make Ghana proud."

"As a former titleholder, the Miss Universe experience taught me a great deal and has shaped me to be the woman I am today. I am very passionate about building and maintaining the reputation of the Miss Universe Ghana pageant in my role as National Director."

"My wife - she's my manager, she's my, she's my coach, she's my everything, she's my everything."

"When you treat a woman right you always get a beautiful home… respect is key. I respect her (Menaye) a lot and she also respects me. People talk a lot but we are focused."

"n the final year of the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology program, entrepreneurs-in-training are required to form teams for their startups. The three of us, having worked on a previous project in MEST, decided to start a company together. From there we brainstormed on various ideas and settled on one. The idea went through a lot of iterations as we gathered feedback from our colleagues, the faculty and most importantly, potential clients. We pitched this idea to the Meltwater Foundation and got seed funding. Most of our early days were used in validating our ideas, gathering requirements for the solution and building the solution ."

"We are honoured to receive this award and that we have the opportunity to showcase our product at the launch conference ."

"Entrepreneurs in Africa could also take it upon themselves to serve as role models by taking time to talk to young people in school and in other programs so the students can understand what entrepreneurship is and begin to consider it as a career path."

"Find your passion and what you are good at. Learn and read a lot on it and just do it. Sometimes we over-analyze and it paralyses our ideas. Ideas are nothing if they are not implemented. Ideas and visions are always clearer when you start implementing them."

"There is no female brain and male brain, we are all persons not just gender. Career and professions don’t have gender. It’s about your ability, not your gender. So, if there is something you can do, you don’t have to look at who is in there. They are human beings just like you."

"It was a long process. We went through a lot of refinements, so by the time the actual product was out, it was something people wanted. We have been very, very big on getting feedback from our customers since they are the ones going to use it."

"It was a long process. We went through a lot of refinements, so by the time the actual product was out, it was something people wanted. So yeah that has been the trend. We have been very, very big on getting feedback from our customers since they are the ones going to use it."

"Sustainability should be integrated into every aspect of our lives. Businesses should be accountable for the indirect unintended consequences of supply and consumption."

"We started this particular initiative about a decade ago. The rationale is to utilize our raw materials and create employment for our youths even as we tackle climate change"

"The triple problems of poverty, unemployment, and environmental degradation have affected rural communities in Ghana and forced many youth from rural Ghana to migrate to the urban areas. One way of addressing these problems is to use local resources, maximize the skills of the people, and enable profitable partnerships throughout the value chain"

"In my culture, where age and gender impact on social status, being young and a woman is sometimes difficult, especially when meeting potential clients or business partners who can be judgmental. However, this has never stifled my potential or discouraged me. It’s the importance of sustainability for our future that keeps driving me to overcome these sorts of obstacles ."

"The bamboos are strong, meaning that the bicycles are also strong and durable. The bicycles have been in use for almost 10 years"

"I see entrepreneurship as a calling, not as a last resort for those who are looking for employment in the formal sector and not finding it."

"“I have come to learn to be patient and not give up too quickly. It takes patience and persistence to bring new and innovative products and ways of doing things to a community.”"

"Patience and persistence are essential when introducing innovation and new solutions to a community. No matter what happens, don’t give up too quickly in your business. Stay committed to your vision; you can bring positive change to Africa over time."

"Of course we all know that the economy is not doing well and our customers are not the multinationals but they are the everyday business men and women and so when they are affected we are also affected and because of that our loans have suffered and that has a ripple effect on interest rates. We also are borrowing expensive money because generally the interest rates in the country are very high."

"women are not new to leadership, over the years they have played their roles effectively to drive progress in their organisations and the society at large .But we continue to see gender disparity in corporate leadership, board appointments and representation in governments across the African continent. As leaders , we all have a role to play to drive gender balance and greater equality in our organisations, in government and the wider society."

"Tv3 and the entire Media general group seeks to continue to serve as the best and most authoritative provider in news and current affairs in the country, and is committed to developing educational content hence the need to work with the ministry to educate Ghanaians on the process of digital migration."

"Our unique makeup as women makes it very difficult and challenges our ability to function easily in a male dominated environment."

"a mother, to be able to achieve success in a professional job there is a fundamental need to be supported by your husband and free more roles on the domestic chores."

"My drive has always been to exceed expectation there, by not just meeting targets but exceeding it."

"I was born into a huge family; we’re 63 in number. And growing up, I had to defend myself from my brothers and that taught me how to stand up for myself in the outside world."

"Every Ghanaian has the ability to invest but procrastination is what is keeping everyone from attaining financial independence."

"For you to be able to create wealth, you need to be able to plan, you need to be disciplined, you need to have information and also you need to monitor. Without discipline, you can never be a millionaire."

"You cannot say you want to sacrifice career over family or sacrifice family for your career. You’ve got to balance it and that is what I did."

"I got into the STEM field because I started working as a secretary and fell in love with Information Technology."

"I also saw for myself whilst working as a secretary that, all the IT consultants were really being paid well."

"As a secretary i was earning only 10% of the salary of an IT Consultant, so i made used of the technology tools available and slowly with the guide of some professionals, i got equipped with the right technology skill sets and within months, I established a career in STEM."

"Being named as one of the 100 inspirational women in the world by BBC in 2015 is a great achievement."

"Being a co winner of the Reach for Change and Tigo’s Digital Change maker’s award in 2016 is another achievement."

"Empowering over 10,000 elementary school children with basic programming skills in Ghana directly or indirectly is another great achievement."

"When i started family, it was difficult to put projects together without interruptions."

"I had to work extra hours both day and night to make up."

"As a founder of an NGO, we mostly rely on support both in cash and kind to expand to many other communities."

"We lack a lot of resources that can enable us to scale and tinker a lot."

"We have learnt to overcome them by introducing more computer science unplugged activities."

"My advice is that girls must ignore pressure to pursue a different field."

"They must capitalize on technology to learn new skills or improve on their skills."

"Technology is reinventing the world."

"Kids need new skills to prepare them for a successful career in the future but the current ICT (Information Communications Technology) curriculum does not include them which is quite alarming."

"This is where Ghana Code Club comes in."

"It is a volunteer led, after-school digital fun club that equips children between the ages of 8-17 years with coding skills."

"We have piloted with five schools and are ready to be launched into the majority of schools in Ghana during the first quarter of 2016."

"I always dreamed of leading a team of IT professionals in creating cutting-edge solutions for Africa."

"This passion emerged when I worked for an IT firm in Accra back in 2000 as a secretary."

"I admired the IT consultants so much, especially the only lady among them."

"I remember I took home only about 10% of what the IT professionals earned at the time."

"I wanted to enroll on an HTML course (HTML is the standard coding language used to create webpages) but the little money I earned I used to take care of my siblings. Instead of waiting forever, I decided to teach myself any way I could."

"I got in touch with a web designer who for a small fee introduced me to the basics of HTML."

"I practiced any time I got the chance and within weeks, I was designing my own websites."

"With more confidence in my skills, I took out a classified ad promoting myself as a virtual assistant and took on four clients, including one web-based telecom company in the USA."

"In 2004 I was able to resign as a secretary, rent an office and eventually hire people to provide additional support."

"I was so grateful and so happy with my progress that I wanted to do something to empower others with the kind of skill set that got me this far."

"I registered the NGO, Healthy Career Initiative in 2007 with the objective of empowering students with the skill set they will need to thrive in the 21st century but unfortunately it remained relatively inactive due to my heavy workload."

"I got married and had children and things slowed down even further as I realized I needed to work from home and be there for my kids when they needed me."

"One day, when my boy was 5, I was searching the internet for a simple programming platform to start teaching him and came across a blog about kids learning to code in the UK and the kind of things they were building that triggered my enthusiasm for my inactive NGO."

"I wanted Ghanaian kids to create the same exciting digital stuff kids in the developed world were creating."

"Things like interactive stories, websites, games and animation."

"I put plans together and Ghana Code Club was born."

"The best part of my job is being in the classroom with the kids feeling empowered that they have created things that can be used by another person from any part of the world."

"The smiles on their faces make me feel wonderful and hopeful that these kids will go on to develop the digital footprint of Ghana and Africa and impact the world as a whole."

"Technology is the catalyst to development in every country so Ghana also needs to emphasise its importance and steer resources towards technological advancement."

"Every home should have access to a computer and the internet."

"Then if kids can get trained in the right skills, the country will breed more entrepreneurs, innovators and problem solvers who are needed in every ministry to develop logical thinking."

"We aim to launch into 20 or more schools within the first quarter of 2016 reaching not less than 20,000 children."

"We also hope to organise an inter school competition to see the impact of creativity, problem-solving and collaborative skills within our code club members."

"We then hope to establish a training centre that will assist deprived children who in one way or another wish to participate in our code clubs but are unable to."

"We are always looking for support and donations to carry out our plans successfully!"

"I would like to acknowledge the partnerships with government and their regulators."

"They offer policy guidelines and directions to support and broaden the national policy agenda through the hospitality industry."

"We want to thank the government and we look forward to more fruitful collaborations to grow the hospitality industry to its exceptional level."

"Our lives have always been service and what you can do differently to improve the dynamics."

"Despite Ghana’s challenges in 2014 in terms of currency depreciation, investors have remained interested in the country and it remains a safe and secure investment destination."

"Political stability and streamlined investment procedures, Ghana possesses a robust legal and regulatory framework."

"The World Bank’s 2014 “Doing Business” report, Ghana ranks as the best destination in West Africa in terms of the ease of doing business."

"The country also placed second in Africa and 10th in the world in The Economist’s 2013 list of fastest-growing economies."

"At this stage investment activity from Brazil and other South American countries remains relatively limited."

"Other regions of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia have already demonstrated significant interest."

"South Africa, for example, has registered approximately 100 projects since the 1990s, and looking to Asia, India remains one of our top 10 foreign investors to date."

"This can be done in a few key ways."

"The country can support investment outside of these hubs and spread industry throughout the country by putting in place critical infrastructure in these areas. ‎*Ghana can strengthen its investment promotion strategies in targeted sectors and industries that have a comparative advantage in areas outside of Accra, Tema and Takoradi."

"Gold refining in the Ashanti Region, rice milling in the northern region or tourism training in the central region."

"The government has already put in place location based incentives for companies that invest inside and outside regional capitals."

"The GIPC actively encourages, promotes and facilitates investments both into and within Ghana, and we work to do this in a number of ways like ensuring awareness of investment and business opportunities."

"The GIPC is also celebrating corporate excellence and successful enterprise building through initiatives like the Ghana Club 100 awards."

"Part of our strategy for 2015 focuses on promotional efforts targeting specific investments from these countries."

"We are collaborating with their diplomatic missions in Ghana, as well as Ghana’s missions abroad, to gather relevant information on interested investors."

"We are also on the lookout for programmes that allow us to promote the country."

"The GIPC is focusing on establishing the optimal investment environment as well as encouraging larger investments."

"Although fewer than in same period of 2013, the second quarter of 2014 saw 47 new investment projects registered with GHS42.68m ($16.27m) in initial capital transfers and a total estimated value of GHS1.01bn ($385.01m)."

"India accounted for the most projects, with nine, while Mauritius registered the largest project, at $100m."

"Investors are guaranteed unconditional transferability of dividends and net profits after tax to their home countries."

"Transferability of payments for loan servicing in the case of foreign loans and royalties and other fees in respect of technology transfer transactions."

"From making known your intention to invest in Ghana through to business set-up, we accompany you all the way."

"Under our investor relation services, we make sure that the business is smoothly established and all linkages to the various relevant government agencies are established."

"GIPC engages with all governmental agencies at various levels to provide support to the foreign investor."

"Key among these institutions are the National Development Planning Commission."

"The Ghana Revenue Authority, the Registrar General’s Department, the Ghana Immigration Service and the Ministry of Finance."

"Remains a delicate issue and the GIPC land bank helps investors to find the appropriate land for their use."

"We also provide access to the Catalogue of Joint Venture Projects."

"This is to those investors who are looking for the right local partners to implement their project."

"We make available information on Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects. *These are usually large scale projects that government is seeking investments for."

"We encourage local entrepreneurs by finding them the right foreign partners in order to create growth."

"Ghana’s 1992 Constitution, which is the basic framework for the governance of the country, offers guarantees of protection to investors and their investments."

"The GIPC Act guarantees against expropriation as well."

"Expropriation is allowed only in the national interest and must be accompanied by fair and adequate compensation."

"We offer commitment at the bilateral level to protect investors and their investments."

"The GIPC is mandated to encourage and promote investments in the Ghanaian economy through the negotiation of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITS) with interested countries."

"Government gives the right to the investor to take Ghana to arbitration in any of the selected and pre agreed dispute settlement forums."

"Ghana has concluded more than 21 BITS."

"Ghana can boast of a premier location to do business on the African continent."

"Conditions present include political stability, a growing economy, increasing consumer demand, accessibility to the wider West African market and viable local partners."

"I will take this opportunity to invite potential investors from all over the world."

"Investors in Ghana have recorded average profits in excess of 35 per cent of their total investments."

"This is a huge return that I urge potential investors to take advantage of."