Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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Most leadership writing today advises us on how to prosper within the system. I believe real leadership is about transforming the system.
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The next time you think you're perfect, try walking on water.
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You may lose people you love. You may lose things you had.. but no matter what, never lose yourself.
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The natural state of our economy is prosperity. Freedom guarantees that. The only force capable of undermining it is government.
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Today we tend to focus on the unemployment rate being low. But just creating jobs isn’t the point. Many of the jobs people have today don’t even pay a living wage. Our focus needs to be on creating wealth, not just jobs or earning a wage.
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Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can.
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Our MANDATE at Blackhawk is to create mega-millionaires. Period. More wealth for our clients, more power for all of us ...the People.
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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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When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'.
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Don't ever confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude always depends on who you are.
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The best way to develop people is to constantly get them out of their comfort zone.
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To be the best you must be able to handle the worst.
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In the end, what matters most is how well you lived, how well you loved, and how well you learned to let go.
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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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Make no mistake about it; money is first and foremost about freedom. It is not about acquiring things nor flaunting it in front of family and friends. It is all about freedom. Freedom to do whatever you want, whenever you want. Freedom to tell your boss or whoever is running your life to take a hike. The only boss I want to have in my life is money. All the rest is for the birds.
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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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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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Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you are waiting.
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Fight not for your own abundance, but for the abundance of others & you'll see how your life will turn around.
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If you have the power to make someone feel lost without you, it's a wonderful feeling. Use it wisely.
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Don't let someone create you, because they might just destroy you.
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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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Trade and wealth creation is not all upside. It is failure, too. Failure is a necessary component to growth and success. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times but also hit 714 home runs. We need to let failing entities fail. Only then will successful people turn these enterprises back into wealth-creating vehicles again. “Too big to fail” is a concept that perpetuates failure and saps vitality from the rest of the wealth creators to do so.