Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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Great wealth is often created by the launching of great surprises, not by the launching of great enterprises.
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If judging people on first impressions were an Olympic sport, they'd suspect me of using steroids.
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Play The Game or Get Played.
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Live for what you believe in ... and die for it too.
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Swag is not about what you want people to think about you, its already knowing what they think about you.
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A major reason so many start-ups fail is the flawed assumption that if the product is good enough, consumers will find it, the Field of Dreams philosophy of Build it and they will come. Except a lot of times, they don’t. Founders can be overly optimistic when it comes to acquiring customers instead of better preparing for what is usually a time consuming and expensive aspect of growing a business.
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I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough.
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Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.
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Listen to what people say when they are mad, that's when the truth comes out.
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Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.
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Biggest mistake Reagan ever did re: foreign policy? 1984 decision to appease Hezbollah with Lebanon withdrawal.
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I wish politicians the world over would stop claiming credit for economic growth that happens despite them, not because of them. Grow up...
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Always remember... We are engaged in a battle for the continuation of our capitalist, free-market economic model; our way of life; and our liberty. The enemy is anticapitalist, believes in big government, embraces collectivist ideologies, and has, over the past century, infiltrated every level of our government and most of the banking industry. They don’t care about patriotism, although they may sport the red, white, and blue and the stars and stripes on their bumper stickers. They don’t care about personal responsibility or civic duty. They don’t share your sense of honor. All they care about is power and control over your money and every aspect of your life.
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We need a reset in the way the economy grows around the world.
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If there's a proven track record, the odds are higher that success can be repeated. This is what we investors always hope for.
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It's never better to make somebody poorer, even if they're rich.
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Time has now come which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves.
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A man with money is no match against a man on a mission. After all, money can’t buy you immortality.
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The Boston Consulting Group recently released a study showing that there were 5.2 million households in America that could be classified as millionaires.1 I would love to see a candidate for national office, especially president, come out and announce that his platform was squarely oriented toward creating wealth, that in 8 to 10 years we would have 50 million millionaires in America.
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Being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there.
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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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Often in life we forget the things we should remember and remember the things we should forget.
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My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.