Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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Sometimes the hardest things in life are what make you the strongest.
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I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time.
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Forget the housing, bond or derivatives bubbles … Fraud Is the Biggest Bubble of all time.
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Unless you're involved in the system of coercive force, with money alone you don't get power.
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The real measure of your "wealth" is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
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Hezbollah is not a mammoth force, there is only so much they can do in Syria. Iranian role more critical for the regime.
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Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go.
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To be the best you must be able to handle the worst.
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Always Remember... Once You Give Up Your Rights, You Can Never Get Them Back. Once You Turn On That Police State, You Can Never Turn It Off.
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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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Building a business doesn't mean getting venture capital funding. It means finding customers and making money.
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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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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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If you have the power to make someone feel lost without you, it's a wonderful feeling. Use it wisely.
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I find it insane to say, "Work hard," when the harder you work, the more you pay in taxes... Crazy.
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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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There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.
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You will never solve problems unless you face them head on.
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There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out.
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In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.
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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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Always remember... When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.
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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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Drugs have destroyed many people. But wrong government policies have destroyed many more.