15 Quotes Every Student Entrepreneur Must Memorize

15 Quotes Every Student Entrepreneur Must Memorize

 As a student entrepreneur, starting up a business, challenges are sure to arise. However, what are the major challenges entrepreneurs face when starting a small business from scratch? How do successful entrepreneurs and drop out billionaires handle and solve problems in business? Must an entrepreneur face these business challenges when starting a business?
Well, the following quotes, will answer your questions:

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.” – Robert Kiyosaki
“Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine and eminently unsatisfying.” – J. Paul Getty
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” – Richard Branson
“He that is prepared has half won the battle.” – Chinese Proverb
“The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your laziness that defines and limit who you are.” – Rich Dad
“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” – Thomas Edison
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.” – Thomas Edison

Business is going to change in the next ten years than it has in the last fifty years.” – Bill Gates
“Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.” – J. Ogden Armour
The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don’t bother thinking about becoming a business owner.” – Rich Dad
“Individuals don’t win in business, teams do.” – Sam Walton
Business and investing are team sports.” – Rich Dad
My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys that kept each other’s negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person; they are done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs
“The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.” – Bill Gates
“You must fire bad customers just as you would fire a bad employee. If you do not get rid of your bad employees, the good employees will leave. If I do not fire bad customers, not only will my good customers leave but many of my good employees will leave as well.” – Rich Dad

6 Best Books By Nigerian Authors To Read 2015

6 Best Books By Nigerian Authors To Read 2015

6 Best Books By Nigerian Authors To Read 2015. Readers are leaders is a quote we all want to live by. As students we should not be limited to reading only books that have to do with our academics however, reading wide leads to a more broader knowledge of people and the environment around us. Jim Concept has distilled for young Nigerians a must read list for 2015, so you should purchase one of this books and get to reading this holiday season. Below is our must read list for 2015:

1. We Should all Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All Be Feminists is a book-length essay by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. First published in 2014 by Fourth Estate, it aims to give a definition of feminism for the 21st century. The essay has been adapted from Adichie’s 2012 TEDx talk of the same name. The book received overwhelmingly positive reviews. Rupert Hawksley said “it just might be the most important book you read all year” in The Telegraph. In December 2015, the Swedish Women’s Lobby and Alber Bonniers, a publisher, revealed the book is to be distributed to every sixteen-year-old high school student in Sweden.

2. The Fishermen – Chigozie Obioma
The Fishermen is the debut novel by Nigerian author Chigozie Obioma, published in 2015. The novel follows four brothers in a small Nigerian village who are given a violent prophecy which shakes their family to the core. It was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.

3. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives – Lola Shoneyin
Lola Shoneyin (born Titilola Atinuke Alexandrah Shoneyin, 26 February 1974, Ibadan, Nigeria) is a Nigerian poet and author who launched her debut novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, in the UK in May 2010. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s’ Wives is a multi-protagonist satirical novel set in the Ibadan of Baba Segi, a polygamous and arrogantly illiterate trader. The author narrated through the voices of Baba Segi, his wives, and his driver in different chapters, taking the reader through the complexity of trying to co-exist with co-wives with differences in educational background. With the most dominant protagonist, we see a desperate struggle for acceptance by her co-wives and to find herself.

4. Everyday is For the Thief – Teju Cole
The title of this book is taken from a Yoruba proverb, quoted as an epigraph: “ojo gbogbo ni t’ole, ojo kan ni t’olohun. [Every day is for the thief, but one day is for the owner.] Every Day Is for the Thief tells the story of a young man return to his home country, Nigeria after fifteen years away. The man who remains anonymous throughout the book meditates and reflects on the condition of society in his native country.

5. Season of Crimson Blossoms – Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a Nigerian writer and journalist. He holds a BA in Mass Communication from the University of Jos.  In conservative Northern Nigeria, the salacious affair between 55-year-old widow Binta Zubairu and a 26 year-old weed dealer and political thug with the very unusual name Hassan ‘Reza’ is bound to cause more than a ripple.

6. Born on a Tuesday – Elnathan John

Dantala’s story begins in the fictional backwater called Bayan Layi, away from the capital of Nigeria’s only legally recognised caliphate, Sokoto. He is introduced as a naive but fast-learning Quranic student in a Sufi Quranic school, far away from his parents. Very quickly after the end of his schooling, by happenstance, he is introduced to the leader of a small urban street gang, Banda, a nominal Muslim who lives on the fringes.