Tabitha Karanja

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."