Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

Figure out what you do best, and build a team second to none around that... # 1 Requirement in building first class companies.

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• I have a great team at WME.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Team
  • Great Team

• When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Nice
  • Start
  • Building

• I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Reasons
  • Companies
  • Buy

• You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Team

• The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Great
  • Church
  • Style

• How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Team
  • Kind
  • Adversity

• At 21, Real Madrid or Barcelona would have been more difficult for me. If I play well enough at Chelsea, I could win my place in the starting team, and my priority is to play.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Real
  • Team
  • Me

• Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Remember
  • Team
  • Football

• The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Team
  • Day
  • Best

• I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Start
  • First
  • Building

• You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Guy
  • Team
  • Community

• I want to put expectations on our team that are high. That's kind of the way I've always been, and I want to put those expectations on our team as well.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • High
  • Team

• Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

  

  Mark Millar
  • Money
  • Team

• There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

  

  Bill Klem
  • Why
  • Team

• It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't know if I was good enough to make the team, but I worked out with the guys, and it was a lot of fun.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Team

• During a season, you have different moments, up and down, but you have to hope in a good team to have good stability.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• Good leaders, good team players, know how to make the most of everything.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Good
  • Team

• Leo [Messi] is the best player of all time - better than Pele, Maradona or Cruyff. There have been some great teams in history - Pele's Brazil, Cruyff's Ajax, Sacchi's Milan - but in the past 20 years this Barcelona team is the best.

  

  Xavi
  • Time
  • Great
  • History

• The team thing would be to keep him at quarterback, ... But the guy's a junior and he's worked too hard here to do that. I believe he deserves an opportunity to be on the field.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Opportunity
  • Team
  • Deserves

• It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • True
  • Funny
  • Feel

• The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • Women
  • Scared
  • Insight

• Figure out what you do best, and build a team second to none around that... # 1 Requirement in building first class companies.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Team
  • Building
  • Companies