Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.
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Affordable Care Act" roll out isn't Obama's fault. It's what happens when you elect a President without any real-world business experience.
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A million men can tell a woman she is beautiful, but the only time she will listen is when it's said by the man she loves.
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All of us, try to eliminate risk from our lives. The sad thing about risk is that when you eliminate risk you also eliminate the future.
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Don't ever be afraid to show who you really are, because as long as you are happy with yourself, no one else's opinion matters.
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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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Difference between being Rich and Being Wealthy? Time...Nothing is more important than TIME... can't buy it back ever.
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Make the money, don't let the money make you.. Change the game, don't let the game change you
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I find it hilarious that if we lie to the government, it's a crime. But if they lie to us its politics.
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Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless...
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The single biggest reason why the vast majority of people go nowhere in life is because they don't or won't take risks. They take the easy way out, the path of least resistance. You don't make it big that way. Ever.
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Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you.
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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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Building companies rules of the game have all changed today. It used to cost millions of dollars to do anything substantial. You'd get VC backing & then you'd hire the team to build it. Now it's deploy or die.
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Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.
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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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Humility is the flipside of pride. It doesn’t mean suddenly being selfless; it means realizing that others might have a better answer than you or a better solution. It means accepting you might not always be the smartest person in the room. Being confident and humble are not mutually exclusive. Embracing humility will help give you an open mind and a clearer vision of how to beat the odds and make your start-up a 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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In a victory speech, I always like to thank the opposition, because without their help and stupidity, I couldn’t have won.
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Nothing ever stays the same. Just because things aren't good now doesn't mean they will be that way forever....Never quit.
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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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The things you do for yourself are gone when you're gone, but the things you do for others become legacy.What do you wanna be remembered as?
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Since the dawn of the twentieth century, we have been told that the federal government has the answers to solve all of society’s problems. We have been promised, by supposedly serious men who have sworn an oath before God and man, that if we just give Washington, D.C., more of our money and more of our personal freedom, the problems of poverty, illiteracy, racism, unemployment, crime, and corruption will all be solved. Today, each and every one of these problems is worse than it has ever been. The federal government and its blood-sucking bureaucracies do not have a solution to the problem, they are the problem.