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Giving cash to fresh graduates is dangerous...someone will buy shoes, pay rent...and the money will be finished even before he starts the business.

— Gordon Wavamunno

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Source: Quoted in Wavamunno tells his entrepreneurial journey, by Monitor, first published on 29 October 2012 — updated on January 03, 2021, Monitor.
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