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Cecil Duddley Mends Quotes

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Cecil Duddley Mends is a Ghanaian fashion designer and entrepreneur. He is the founder of CDM Fashion Couture and CDM School of Design.

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If you are called; if your passion is squarely fitted in the fashion industry, you too will excel.

Throughout secondary school, that is what I was doing.

My strategy in this business is to respect people who are ahead of you. You see even if you think that you can do better than them, you still have to respect them.

I think that the government must come in

“I want to build a fashion institute, so by next year [2018], we are beginning aggressively. In the next five years, I see myself to becoming one of the great fashion designers in Africa.

you can be benevolent, but let your works speak for themselves

If you are manufacturing in Ghana then the government must subside the cost of the fabrics. For instance, the manufacturers of fabrics in Ghana can be assisted by the government, otherwise somebody going to purchase a fabric and use it for industrial production will lose out.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cecil Duddley Mends (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.