Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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We’ve been so afraid; so hell bent on destroying enemies; both foreign and domestic, we’ve hurt ourselves and our democracy. Time to wake up.
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Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events.
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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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In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.
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Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless...
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The problem is never the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Think before you rush into action.
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When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'.
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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Time has now come which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves.
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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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The best way to develop people is to constantly get them out of their comfort zone.
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Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up...
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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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Too many people today on Wall Street go for the quick buck at the expense of their reputation and client satisfaction, the rationale being “let’s make the money while we can and retire early in the sun.” For me, this is not a sprint but a marathon, besides the fact that, in my definition, overnight success is 15 years. Anyone who does not understand the basic tenets of this philosophy is not someone I can or will do business with.
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Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason why it will.
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Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times.
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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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Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
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Don't judge someone's attitude until you've felt their pain.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing - the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Women worry about the things that men forget; Men worry about the things that women remember.
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Talent attracts capital more effectively than capital attracts talent.
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I believe one of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.