Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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Your best friends should bring out the best in you. If they don't, lose them; they are no friends.
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Myth: USDollar is money. Fact: Gold & Silver are money. USDollar is legal tender/debt brought down to low parcels for spending purposes.
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I believe if you don't keep constantly pushing the envelope and outgrowing yourself you're going to get real old sooner than you think.
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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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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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The recession, which started in 2007, is ongoing. The underlying fundamental causes of the meltdown have not been addressed. Banks are still not lending. Companies are still not hiring. Congress has still not seriously addressed the growing debt. Neither has Congress checked its own out-of-control spending. The much lauded reforms installed by Frank-Dodd are nothing more than another expansion of federal government control over the engines of wealth creation.
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Business Fights Poverty Better Than Charity Does.
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Wealth creation is not a mathematical formula, as the truthseeking quant geeks still want everyone to believe. In the end, their lack of real-world experience and pride corrupted their mathematical genius and destroyed them. You may be able to digitize a daVinci, but that does not make it daVinci. Creating wealth is personal. It is creating assets, creating value, or whatever act of self-perpetuation that drives us to create a legacy.
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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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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 the LIE that prosecuting bank fraud will destabilize the U.S economy is what is really destroying it.
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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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The odds will always favor the man with a plan.
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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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Never let anyone define who you are.
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Play The Game or Get Played.
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You need to be loyal to the people who have helped you in the past & gave you a break when you were not a big player.
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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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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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Building a business doesn't mean getting venture capital funding. It means finding customers and making money.
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Never ask a question if you can’t handle the answer.
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As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that's how it works in a democracy.