Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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 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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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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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 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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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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Wealth creation is not a mathematical formula, as the truthseeking quant geeks still want everyone to believe. In the end, their lack of real-world experience and pride corrupted their mathematical genius and destroyed them. You may be able to digitize a daVinci, but that does not make it daVinci. Creating wealth is personal. It is creating assets, creating value, or whatever act of self-perpetuation that drives us to create a legacy.
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Don't judge someone's attitude until you've felt their pain.
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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 believe one of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.
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Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.
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Time has now come which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves.
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You don’t need to come up with a game-changing solution to every problem. If you develop tunnel-vision on each and every hiccup, you will inevitably lose sight of the big picture and not be able to sustain your business. Those who think more in terms of turning a negative outcome into a positive potential have a much better chance of riding out the rough times.
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Women worry about the things that men forget; Men worry about the things that women remember.
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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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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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When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'.
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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe in, is at the end of the day of little consequence.The only consequence is what we do.
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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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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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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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Don't let someone create you, because they might just destroy you.
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Don't ever confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude always depends on who you are.