Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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Building a business doesn't mean getting venture capital funding. It means finding customers and making money.
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There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out.
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You will never solve problems unless you face them head on.
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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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Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you are waiting.
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When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'.
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Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
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I'm not Democrat or Republican: I Vote Entrepreneur.
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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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Wealth comes from big goals and sustained action toward those goals every day....Never surrender.
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Talent attracts capital more effectively than capital attracts talent.
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The debt ceiling is not what causes our problems, it's the only thing that might help solve our problems.
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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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I believe one of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.
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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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Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people will come to you and stay.
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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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How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.
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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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Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up...
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The best way to develop people is to constantly get them out of their comfort zone.
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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Always remember ... You are not designed for everyone to like you. Get used to it.