I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion - not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond. So dream laughably big - and then take an absurdly huge risk or two.
Umair HaqueIt's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.
Umair HaqueThe question you must answer isn't how to get ahead. It's how to go somewhere that matters. And have fun along the way.
Umair HaqueThe biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
Umair HaqueYes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or its closest moral equivalent. 200 years ago, debtors didn't go bankrupt, they went to prison. 100 years ago - well, business is largely the same as it was a century ago. And that's exactly the problem. Business hasn't changed, but today's array of tectonic global shocks demands a different, radically better kind of business. Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.
Umair Haque