Quotes from Sahar Hashemi

Walt Disney was turned down for a loan for Disney theme parks 300 times.

Colonel Sanders went to 1,000 restaurants before someone bought his KFC chicken recipe.

It is wishful thinking to expect change without factoring in a few failures along the way.

As companies grow they acquire a dogma that constrains them.

A good way to capitalize on cluelessness is to work with people who are qualified not by years on the job but by attitude towards it – enthusiasm, inspiration and creativity.

one factor behind his company's innovative products is that it employs graduates straight from university.

standing in customers' shoes and seeing the world from their perspective is better than just relying on their feedback or reaction.

you become so good at doing something that it prevents you from ever doing anything new.

By the late 1990s Xerox had lost its dominance in photocopiers. Its past success had paralysed it and consigned it to history.

Companies are realizing that in order to retain talent, they need to allow the flexibility to work smarter. This

In fact, the opposite of work isn't play - it's idleness. That's

Fun is not a form of entertainment, it's an integral part of being good at what you do at work. —Daniel H. Pink, Free Agent Nation, 2002

The challenge is to find a new way of working that complements our lives rather than compromises them, striking a balance between how we would like to live our lives and how we would like to work.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you've got it built, they'll want something new. —Steve Jobs

If I had to do it all over again, I would have encouraged employees to make more mistakes. —Thomas Watson, IBM

If you're not getting nos you're not trying.

We should do something when people think it's crazy, if people say it's good it means someone is doing it already. —Hajime Mitari, president of Canon

When the world says, "Give up," hope whispers, "Try it one more time." —Anon

Every failure is a learning experience and it should be seen as part of the process rather than the enemy.

The opposite of success isn't failure, it's doing nothing.