President of the Ghana Association of Chinese Societies and Ghana Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Mr. Tang Hong has urged students to develop good attitudes and perseverance which are key to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
At an entrepreneurial public lecture organized for students of the confuscious Institute at the University of Cape Coast on “How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur”, he said to become a successful entrepreneur, education should be paramount to the individual embarking on the business venture.
The lecture was meant to equip and prepare the students for any entrepreneurial endeavour they might want to venture in during and when they leave school.
According to Mr. Tang, it is good to have certain things which is very important one wants to succeed as entrepreneurs.
“We must be well educated and so if you start the university is the best opportunity to study very well, study what is in your books and practice them very well,” he said.
Mr. Tang also advised the students participants to be patient and also persevere if they truly desire to become successful entrepreneurs.
“In my opinion, you must have patient because if you don’t have patients over everything you will lose so, you must persevere and be patient because you cannot take one day to complete a project,” he noted.
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Speaking to ATLFMNEWS on the sideline of the lecture, Director of the Confucius Institute of Ghana, Professor Ishmael Mensah said this public lecture forms part of the Institute’s numerous lecture series aimed at equipping students in diverse ways aside the teaching and learning that occurs at lecture halls.
He said, “Confucius Institute do not only teach the Chinese Language, we also equip our students with other life skills and so over the years we have been having public lectures and what is different from this particular lecture is the topic, which focuses on entrepreneurship”.
Professor Mensah further indicated that, his outfit will continue to organize such programmes for its students and the university community in entrepreneurial skills adding that it is not always that students should wait for the government to employ them after school.
“This will be sustained so as time goes on, we will continue to organize such lectures to the students and the entire university community. My message to the students is that they should stop looking for white-color jobs and as students we should also have that entrepreneurial orientation so that when we come out of school and we do not readily get jobs, we can start certain businesses on our own,” he stated.
Source: Eric Sekyi/ATLFMNEWS
