Risk and Return Quotes

“What you get from something should be worth more than what you put into it.”
― Yomi Jemibewon, Risk and Return: A journey of entrepreneurship and self-discovery in Africa

“Admitting my fears was the only thing that allowed me to estimate the price of the plunge and find the courage to take it.”
― Yomi Jemibewon, Risk and Return: A journey of entrepreneurship and self-discovery in Africa

“We need more contributors to drive the change that we all wish to see on our continent.”
― Yomi Jemibewon, Risk and Return: A journey of entrepreneurship and self-discovery in Africa

“I wasn't trying to be Gandhi. I just wanted to go home and make a life for myself.”
― Yomi Jemibewon, Risk and Return: A journey of entrepreneurship and self-discovery in Africa

“But that's is the simple genius of entrepreneurship. You find a need and supply it.”
― Yomi Jemibewon, Risk and Return: A journey of entrepreneurship and self-discovery in Africa

“Yet even when you don't win, you learn.”
― Yomi Jemibewon, Risk and Return: A journey of entrepreneurship and self-discovery in Africa

“Whatever you did before, whatever you learned from life, there will be a competency from your own past that can be of service to you.”
― Yomi Jemibewon, Risk and Return: A journey of entrepreneurship and self-discovery in Africa

“In every new journey you will encounter many situations where you do not know what to do. Yet you are not without resources.”
― Yomi Jemibewon, Risk and Return: A journey of entrepreneurship and self-discovery in Africa

“Sometimes a catalogue of mistakes can become a collection of good decisions.”
― Yomi Jemibewon, Risk and Return: A journey of entrepreneurship and self-discovery in Africa

“I was speaking with a confidence I didn't completely feel.”
― Yomi Jemibewon, Risk and Return: A journey of entrepreneurship and self-discovery in Africa

“Would my energy be mistaken for rudeness? Could I deal with that?”
― Yomi Jemibewon, Risk and Return: A journey of entrepreneurship and self-discovery in Africa

“Were we ready to relearn things we had learned to ignore?”
― Yomi Jemibewon, Risk and Return: A journey of entrepreneurship and self-discovery in Africa

“I don't need to prove that I deserved to be there. I just needed to connect and be sensible in what I was saying.”
― Yomi Jemibewon, Risk and Return: A journey of entrepreneurship and self-discovery in Africa

“Only by fulfilling those immediate roles and responsibilities would I put myself in a position to figure out how to make a future I could live with.”
― Yomi Jemibewon, Risk and Return: A journey of entrepreneurship and self-discovery in Africa