Umair Haque quotes:

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.

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

Remember to be awesome.

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.

You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one

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

Yes, 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.

Each and every one of us is a leader. Some of us just don't know it yet.

Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.

Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.

We're richer, but that wealth doesn't reflect durable, authentic economic value - which is hitting fast diminishing returns. The growth that we're pursuing is neither sustainable - nor is it, in many ways, real growth at all. Boardrooms from finance to autos to energy to pharma to fashion have learned that the hard way.

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.

In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

It's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.

It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.

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