Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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Business Fights Poverty Better Than Charity Does.
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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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I believe the LIE that prosecuting bank fraud will destabilize the U.S economy is what is really destroying it.
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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.
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Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories.
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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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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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Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up...
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Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
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Never ask a question if you can’t handle the answer.
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Building a business is like creating a picture & striving to be picture perfect in everything you do.
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Forget the housing, bond or derivatives bubbles … Fraud Is the Biggest Bubble of all time.
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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 best way to develop people is to constantly get them out of their comfort zone.
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Never underestimate the hidden power of one very determined person. There is nothing more powerful than determination and persistence.
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I do not believe in the power of brand names or in emulating any of the brand name investors out there. It is a fact that all—if not at least most—of the biggest names in American finance and industry out there today have proven after the 2008 crisis to be some of the most incompetent people there are. Starting with the untouchable Goldman Sachs, who was bailed out by over $5 billion from Warren Buffett, to AIG and Citibank, who were bailed out by the hundreds of billions of dollars from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), having a name and a history does not make you the brightest and the best. All it takes is one nincompoop with a huge ego or a board of directors who think they are smarter than everyone else to destroy what has taken generations to build.
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In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.
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Great change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over & release control over what you don't.
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I believe one of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.
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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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Drugs have destroyed many people. But wrong government policies have destroyed many more.
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Wealth comes from big goals and sustained action toward those goals every day....Never surrender.
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Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you are waiting.