New Paradigm

"Place an intention to be a vessel- so wealth flows through us, so we can feed the poor. Then it means we are working for Allah  If we are working for Allah, we will do whatever it takesto sell & market our products & Services so we can earn the Halal way  Allah as our Guide, Run to Allah, the wealth will run THROUGH us Not TO us, THROUGH us To the Poor,  Be the Vessel Be the...

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Manual for climbing mountains

A] Choose the mountain you want to climb: don’t pay attention to what other people say, such as “that one’s more beautiful” or “this one’s easier”. You’ll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you’re the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you’re doing. B] Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off – beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we try to...

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Who is John Galt?

For twelve years you've been asking "Who is John Galt?" This is John Galt speaking. I'm the man who's taken away your victims and thus destroyed your world. You've heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis and that Man's sins are destroying the world. But your chief virtue has been sacrifice, and you've demanded more sacrifices at every disaster. You've sacrificed justice to mercy and happiness to duty. So why should you be afraid of the...

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Felix Dennis - Can You Get Rich?

So can you get rich? Can you build your own business empire? It’s true. You can be rich. You can build your business into an empire. You CAN do it. Anyone of reasonable intelligence lives in a Western democracy can do it given sufficient motivation and application. And the first lesson is that you can only get rich if you believe, if you believe in yourself. You must believe in yourself. You must believe in you can do it. You must believe that you...

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Believe In "Ridiculous" Dreams...By Heavy D

Some years back there was a young, ambitious, tenacious young man who wanted to rule the world. This young man and I grew up in the same town. I was slightly older by a couple of years but I had already begun to realize my dreams. This young man reminded me a lot of myself. 1. He believed in himself when no one else would. 2. He often felt like an outcast and alone because there was nobody around that he could share his "RIDICULOUS" dreams with...

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

by MARK SUSTER on NOVEMBER 19, 2009 I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI.  (In case it’s not obvious it’s a play on the Nike slogan, “Just Do It.”)  I believe that being successful as an entrepreneur requires you to get lots of things done.  You are constantly faced with decisions and there is always incomplete information.  This paralyzes most people.  Not you. Entrepreneurs...

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How to Pitch a VC: 5 Tips from ‘Shark Tank’

By Steve Strauss | October 3, 2011 What does it take to not only get the attention of VCs, but actually get them to invest in your business? This, of course, is a question that vexes many an entrepreneur. Sure, you can read books and articles and watch videos, but let me suggest a different path: Watch TV. Specifically, turn on the show “Shark Tank” on Friday nights. If you have never seen it, here’s a quick recap: Entrepreneurs and inventors come...

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6 Lessons We Could Learn from Steve Jobs

By Margaret Heffernan | October 6, 2011 Tracking the achievements of Steve Jobs isn’t a difficult thing to do. They’re big, public and - especially in technology - remarkably long lasting. More tricky but, I think, more interesting, is eliciting from those achievements the lessons we could learn from his successes if we tried. 1. Style is Content From the outset, Jobs and Apple believed in style: in fonts, in graphics, in industrial design and in...

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Pixar: Steve Jobs’ Greatest Accomplishment

By Constantine von Hoffman | October 5, 2011 For a moment, let’s set aside all the talk of Steve Jobs as the man who brought us the Mac, iPad and iPod, and who shocked Apple back to life. Let’s remember him as a man who brought joy and great art to the world through a little side-project of his: Pixar Studios. In 1986 — nine years before anyone had ever heard of Buzz and Woody — Jobs bought what was then known as the Graphics Group from George Lucas‘...

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How To Be An Entrepreneur

Whilst the ultimate desire for any Muslim is success in the Hereafter, the Qur’an also teaches prayers for success in this world. Before beginning a new series on Global Muslim entrepreneurs, emel looks at the attributes that a Muslim entrepreneur should be striving for in their business. Faith in TradeThe Qur’an has many verses extolling the virtues of trade, and the Prophet has said that nine-tenths of all rizq (material provision) is derived...

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