Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

I only back people with track record who can execute ruthlessly and flawlessly... Real killers...no matter the industry or company geography.

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• Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • God
  • Said
  • Thank God

• The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Eyes
  • Stage
  • Old

• I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Woman

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Blame

• I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.

  

  Flula Borg
  • People
  • Funny
  • Finding

• It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Country
  • Money
  • Want

• I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Worst
  • Survive
  • Through

• Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Good
  • Successful

• I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.

  

  Lonny Price
  • People

• We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

  

  Daniel Suarez
  • Book
  • Nature

• When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Person

• I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Why
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently."

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Night

• I'm not as serious of a person as people make me out to be. Most people would think that I would be less successful in comedy, but I can crack a joke as well as anyone else.

  

  T.I.
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare let the day go by without making an offering, whether you mean it or not. Money exceeds affection.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Money
  • Mean

• The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.

  

  R. Lee Wrights
  • Energy
  • Control
  • Government

• Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Fate

• I've seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is bigger than making a profit. We try to follow that at salesforce.com, where we give 1% of our equity, 1% of our profits, and 1% of our employees' time to the community. By integrating philanthropy into our business model our employees feel that they do much more than just work at our company. By sharing a common and important mission, we are united and focused, and have found a secret weapon that ensures we always win.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Poverty
  • Dead
  • Cities

• The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Computer
  • Industry
  • Obsolete

• There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called "Sketch Book"; his name is Vardan Ovsepian.

  

  Brad Mehldau
  • Name
  • Record
  • Label

• Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.

  

  William Battie
  • Running
  • Fashion
  • inspirational

• Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Culture
  • Tradition
  • Weakness

• I only back people with track record who can execute ruthlessly and flawlessly... Real killers...no matter the industry or company geography.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Record
  • Industry
  • Geography