Patrick Awuah, Jr. quotes

“While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.”
-- Patrick Awuah, Jr.

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“Every society must be intentional about educating its leaders.”
-- Patrick Awuah, Jr.

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“In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.”
-- Patrick Awuah, Jr.

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“True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism). In their great numbers, most people have, up to now, never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life.”

“They say before you make something happen you have to see it yourself. I have been seeing it for a long time and I am living my dream.”

“Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds.”

“I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.”

“I don't play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox.”

“I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.”

“Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite”

“The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.”

Source : Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

“In the eighties and nineties, the innovation agenda was exclusively focused on enterprises. There was a time in which economic and social issues were seen as separate. Economy was producing wealth, society was spending. In the 21st century economy, this is not true anymore. Sectors like health, social services and education have a tendency to grow, in GDP percentage as well as in creating employment, whereas other industries are decreasing. In the long term, an innovation in social services or education will be as important as an innovation in the pharmaceutical or aerospatial industry.”

“India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'”

Source : Jairam Ramesh (2015). “Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India”, p.139, Oxford University Press