Eugene

“Nowadays,” my tour guide says, “it is a man’s world here in China. But 6000 years ago, it was a woman’s world. Man and woman don’t need to get married. Man can just visit the woman’s house at night. When you have a baby, it doesn’t matter who the father is.”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

“I now understand that life comes with no guarantees. There is risk at the heart of every decision we make. No matter how much we plan things—or not plan anything at all—life’s plans will always take precedence over our own.”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

“The entrepreneur’s mind-set is completely different to the employee’s mind-set. The entrepreneur finds it abhorrent to conform to organizational norms, whilst the employee finds joy and stability in all that’s tried and true. It’s not that one’s wrong and the other is right. It’s the mind-set that differentiates the two.”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

“I've been around the world now, but the alleys of my childhood will always be special. I carry the old stories and memories with me wherever I go.”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey