Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.
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I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.
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If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.
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5 rules to live a happier life: 1) Love yourself. 2) Do good. 3) Always forgive. 4) Harm no one. 5) Be positive.
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It's okay to have flaws, that's what makes you real.
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Socialism tends to destroy wealth. Socialism does this by draining its vitality away. It does this by destroying the desirability of wealth as a wholesome value. Socialism kills the chance that any community can survive by browbeating the concept of vested ownership, on which community survival is always dependent in the end.
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I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time.
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You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate.
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How you gather, manage and use intel in life determines whether you win or lose. That's the # 1 rule for the mavericks in business.
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People comment today that we shouldn't focus on money so much but rather think of our fellow people who are less fortunate. So much baloney.
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Always remember... How you handle obstacles will always be a key factor in determining your ability to achieve success.
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I strongly believe in the fact that there’s still plenty of money and plenty of private equity capital available around the globe. What are in short supply are great entrepreneurs and great teams. A trading opportunity or a company’s biggest challenge is and has always been the team behind it. There’s enormous change under way in every facet of the world. Some is technology driven, some is market driven. All that change creates unprecedented opportunity, but to take full advantage of such opportunities I mostly focus on the team. The right teams and right people behind those opportunities always win. There is no secret sauce. Trading and investing has, in my experience, boiled down to building relationships and exchanging value. It consists of striking the right balance between backing and interacting with the right teams with the right business model at the right time and with the right amount of money.
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Biggest mistake Reagan ever did re: foreign policy? 1984 decision to appease Hezbollah with Lebanon withdrawal.
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You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.
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Many entrepreneurs resist to owing up to the conditions that created the shortcoming—conditions they themselves may have contributed to. They need to put ownership of the problem above the egotistical need of always wanting to look good. If they don’t, failure will result.
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Assad's failure to meet deadline on destroying chemical weapons is just the latest example of Obama's failed Syria policy.
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I believe if we let go of Assad now, we might as well forget the whole region.
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Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.
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I find it insane to say, "Work hard," when the harder you work, the more you pay in taxes... Crazy.
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If wealth is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
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Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
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If the world economy is going to revive, I believe commodities are going to lead it back up. If the world economy is not going to revive, commodities are still the place to be—especially with governments printing so much money. Look at the 1970s. The world economy was in the tank, but commodities did very well.
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Power people wear power like a coat of arms. If can't sense them on the spot you don't know what power is.
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I believe the only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.