(CNN) -- Having just quit a highly lucrative job with tech giant Microsoft in the United States, where he'd made millions working as a program manager, Patrick Awuah would wake up once in a while wondering if he'd done the right thing. "And then I read the words of Goethe," remembers Awuah: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it -- begin it now." What Awuah wanted to begin was to create a university in his native Ghana, a state-of-the-art education hub that would help educate the country's next generation of leaders.
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Patrick Awuah is the founder of Ashesi University in Ghana
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He was working for Microsoft and made millions in the United States before returning to his home country
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Ashesi is known for its high-tech facilities and emphasis on business, technology and leadership
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The school celebrates its 10th anniversary this year
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