Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

I am not in the market to create jobs, build an empire, or leave a legacy; those are the positive fallout of successful economic warfare. My prime objective is wealth creation.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Live
  • New
  • Year

• I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • Job
  • Fun

• I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Pink
  • Favourite
  • Colour

• I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Country
  • America
  • I Loved You

• I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Children
  • Money
  • Happy

• The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Desire

• You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Friend
  • Proud
  • Spell

• Ordinary people can bring about change.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Change
  • Bring

• When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.

  

  Kanye West
  • Water
  • Products
  • Shirts

• We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • People
  • Men
  • Happy

• However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.

  

  Rachel Hartman
  • World
  • Long
  • Home

• Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Persistence

• How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Creatures
  • Loves

• The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • America
  • Movie
  • Star

• Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Jesus

• Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Spiritual

• There's definitely a lot of moments in my life now where I go, 'Wow, I get paid for this.' I've had worse jobs.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • My Life
  • Jobs
  • Paid

• I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.

  

  Stephen A. Schwarzman
  • People
  • World
  • Company

• You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with. It's not so much, do they make you feel good when you're around them all the time; it's how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Good
  • Together
  • Group Of People

• You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

  

  George Mikes
  • People
  • Dog
  • Humans

• I am not in the market to create jobs, build an empire, or leave a legacy; those are the positive fallout of successful economic warfare. My prime objective is wealth creation.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Jobs
  • Empire
  • Wealth Creation