Umair Haque

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“The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.”

― Umair Haque

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“Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.”

― Umair Haque

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“There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.”

― Umair Haque

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“The work that business offers just isn’t fulfilling, so instead of being motivated to innovate, reinvent, reimagine, and outperform, most of us are dully uninspired, dispirited, frustrated, suffocated, and downright stymied.”

― Umair Haque

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"What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they do, added to insanely great stuff, and multiplied by communities who are delighted and inspired because they are authentically better off. That’s a better kind of innovation, built for 21st century economics."

― Umair Haque

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"Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too."

― Umair Haque

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"If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life lived meaningfully isn't denominated by digital friends, designer logos, or wads of paper notes. It's denominated by what you've lived, what it's worth to you, and what that's worth to humanity."

― Umair Haque

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"The 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 Haque