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My Twitter Message….

@PMNawazSharif @KhawajaMAsif @CMShehbaz @betterpakistan @MaryamNSharif @ImranKhanPTI @BBhuttoZardari @AsimBajwaISPR

If I was the PM would have addressed & taken the entire nation into confidence. War is a very serious business & to win it support of the masses is a must.

Negotiating Is Not the Same as Haggling

by Jeff Weiss | 1:00 PM June 10, 2014

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Managing Two People Who Hate Each Other

by Liane Davey | 2:00 PM June 9, 2014

Link:- http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/managing-two-people-who-hate-each-other/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness%2Fweekly-hotlist+%28HBR+Blog+Network+Newsletter+Feed+-+Weekly+Hotlist%29&cm_ite=WeeklyHotlist-061614+%281%29&cm_lm=sp%3Anayyar51%40hotmail.com&cm_ven=Spop-Email

Don’t Hide When Your Boss Is Mad at You

by Karen Dillon | 9:00 AM June 11, 2014

Link:- http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/dont-hide-when-your-boss-is-mad-at-you/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness%2Fweekly-hotlist+%28HBR+Blog+Network+Newsletter+Feed+-+Weekly+Hotlist%29&cm_ite=WeeklyHotlist-061614+%281%29&cm_lm=sp%3Anayyar51%40hotmail.com&cm_ven=Spop-Email

“If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear.

However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment’s hesitation the information that is agreeable to it.

Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.”

~Ibn Khaldun, al-Muqaddimah

[Blindly] following ancient customs and traditions doesn’t mean that the dead are alive, but that the living are dead.

A Quote By
Ibn Khaldun

U.S. President Ronald Reagan quotes Ibn Khaldun regarding Economic Growth

Posted on May 19, 2012 by GREGinSD
Ibn Khaldun on economic growth:

“When civilization [population] increases, the available labor again increases. In turn, luxury again increases in correspondence with the increasing profit, and the customs and needs of luxury increase. Crafts are created to obtain luxury products. The value realized from them increases, and, as a result, profits are again multiplied in the town. Production there is thriving even more than before. And so it goes with the second and third increase. All the additional labor serves luxury and wealth, in contrast to the original labor that served the necessity of life.”

“Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.”

U.S. President Ronald Reagan quotes Ibn Khaldun:

“In the beginning of the empire, tax rates were low AND the revenue was high”
“At the end of the empire, tax rates were high AND the revenue was low”

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol quotes

In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fouth practicing, the fifth — teaching others

Ibn Gabirol quotes

Make books your companions; let your bookshelves be your gardens; bask in their beauty, gather their fruit, pluck their roses, take their spices and myrrh

Samuel Ben Judah Ibn Tibbon quotes