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Government pay
won’t make you rich -Prof. Adei
Ho, March 4, Ghanadot/GNA - Professor Stephen
Adei, former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and
Public Administration (GIMPA) has advised Public Servants to
search for and apply practical ideas that would make them
rich.
“The way to become super-rich is to use your ideas,”
Professor Adei now Chairman of the Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS)
told a meeting of the staff and Volta Regional Committee of
the Society in Ho recently.
He asserted that “most people are poor because they are
looking to government to pay them to be rich”.
On the contrary, “if you look up to government you will die
poor,” he said.
Professor Adei said lack of ideas towards making money
rather than the lack of money itself was the major
constraint facing individuals and organizations in the
country.
He said he has problems with people who think that unless
other people helped them they would be paralyzed.
“The feeling of we can’t do it is a lie. We can do it,” he
said of the ability of the GRCS to generate enough funds
internally rather than over-relying on its foreign partners.
He said support would be forthcoming when there was evidence
of personal efforts, commitment and tangible projects.
Professor Adei said sacrifices, self denial, setting one’s
priorities right, purposefulness and personal drive were
essential ingredients to success in every endeavour.
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