Bijar Khan > Bijar's Quotes

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves. Hewlett-Packard had done that repeatedly; it started as an instrument company, then became a calculator company, then a computer company. Apple has been sidelined by Microsoft in the PC business. You've got to reinvent the company to do some other thing, like other consumer products or devices. You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.”
― Steve Jobs

“Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Out job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him,” Cook said. “That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.”
― Libba Bray , A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood

“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
― Denis Diderot

“Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others”
― Denis Diderot

“Scepticism is the first step towards truth.”
― Denis Diderot, Pensées philosophiques

“A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.”
― Denis Diderot

“Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”
― Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

“Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

“A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

“He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.”
― Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

“Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.”
― Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib A.S

“It’s never the value of water but thirst, it’s never the value of life but death and it’s never about the friendship but trust.”
― Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

“The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.”
― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

“You should have hope in God alone and should fear nothing but your sins.”
― Ali Ibn Abi Talib A.S