Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.
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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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Time has now come which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves.
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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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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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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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Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
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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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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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To create real wealth you must abandon your limited thinking, eliminate boundaries, and stop defining the outcome. Most importantly it means not letting people motivated by jealousy, greed, and envy dictate what your limitations are. You have to take risks in life. Your actions are what count.
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There are few problems in the world that economic prosperity cannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierce attack. The forces that seek power over others have gained the upper hand against those that seek freedom. By harming wealth creation, they cause even more strain on society. Historically, this is nothing new. State domination over its subjects has roots that connect statism, totalitarianism, communism, and socialism to more modern-day variants of liberalism and progressivism. It is a constant fight and we must win.
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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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True Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
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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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Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity.
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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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The Key point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
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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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The 2 greatest equalizers in life: Education and the Internet.
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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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Getting to the future is always held up by those trying to protect the past.
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Always remember ... You are not designed for everyone to like you. Get used to it.
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The American dream is what has kept Americans from rebelling against corporate corruption.Now that 2/3 of us know it's dead, expect anything.
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Talent attracts capital more effectively than capital attracts talent.