A Quote by Jahangir Khan
Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.
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I don't mix business with anything. I don't do business dinners. I don't do business tennis. And I don't do business squash.
I am a professional squash player, and I recently played badly - but as well as I could - in a professional squash tournament. A professional squash player might sound like someone who is in a food-tasting group, but it is a racquet sport.
I just have to keep working, just stay on top of my game, stay on top of my weight and stay prayed up.
It's hard to stay at the top. There's a cheesy saying isn't there: it's easy to get to the top but once you're there it's harder to stay there, and I'm fully aware of that.
I have to work harder than what I am now to make sure that I stay on top of this and stay on top of the world and be competitive in major championships.
I grew up playing squash. I have all these squash trophies in my room... I was, like, third in the country.
Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room that they don't squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling.
I feel pressures to stay relevant. To stay interesting and interested. To stay at the top of my game and expand.
Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine.
My goal was livelihood. We don't use that word often enough. If I could give one piece of advice to anyone it's don't obsess with this notion that you have to turn everything you do into a business, because that ends up being a small version of a large company. But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow the business. We had to reshape our business and acquire share in a non conventional way. But most tech leaders don't come out of a business background. They really have a parochial point of view. All they know are the go-go years of Silicon Valley. That's the environment in which they were raised.
A lot of people don't understand that refugees especially, are fleeing situations that are affecting their livelihood and their children's livelihood.
There are obviously peaks and valleys in everyone's career. This business can be a roller-coaster ride, and it's really hard to stay on top all the time. Very few people do.
There's so many people in the music business or even in general who will tell you that you can't do this or that just because you haven't already had success but I feel like anyone can do anything they put their mind to as long as they stay devoted and stay passionate.
Salespeople are in the decision business. Their livelihood depends on the decisions of others.
My first advice is to keep God first in everything you do. Second is stay in shape, stay ready and learn about the business because you don't want to be in a business you know nothing about, because they will take advantage of you, in this business.
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