Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
I do not believe in the power of brand names or in emulating any of the brand name investors out there. It is a fact that all—if not at least most—of the biggest names in American finance and industry out there today have proven after the 2008 crisis to be some of the most incompetent people there are. Starting with the untouchable Goldman Sachs, who was bailed out by over $5 billion from Warren Buffett, to AIG and Citibank, who were bailed out by the hundreds of billions of dollars from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), having a name and a history does not make you the brightest and the best. All it takes is one nincompoop with a huge ego or a board of directors who think they are smarter than everyone else to destroy what has taken generations to build.Ziad K. Abdelnour
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
Adam Cohen
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
Tammy Duckworth -
The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
Garet Garrett -
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Ice T -
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Nate Berkus
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It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.
Nandan Nilekani -
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
Dan Glickman -
Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.
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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
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Fernando Botero -
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Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans.
Carrot Top -
I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
Usain Bolt -
The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
Harold Ramis -
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Phillipa Soo -
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
M. Ward -
I do not believe in the power of brand names or in emulating any of the brand name investors out there. It is a fact that all—if not at least most—of the biggest names in American finance and industry out there today have proven after the 2008 crisis to be some of the most incompetent people there are. Starting with the untouchable Goldman Sachs, who was bailed out by over $5 billion from Warren Buffett, to AIG and Citibank, who were bailed out by the hundreds of billions of dollars from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), having a name and a history does not make you the brightest and the best. All it takes is one nincompoop with a huge ego or a board of directors who think they are smarter than everyone else to destroy what has taken generations to build.
Ziad K. Abdelnour