Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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Wealth creation is not a business suited to those whose skill set consists of voting “present.” It requires decision making, risk taking, hard information, discipline, insight, and intelligence.
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My Only Boss is Money.
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Advantage lies in a capacity to predict the future before your rivals can.
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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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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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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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If what you do doesn’t make others better at what they do then you are not living up to your potential.
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The wise never confuse information or data, however prodigious or cleverly deployed, with comprehensive knowledge or wisdom...Be wise.
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Always follow your heart ... But take your brain with you too.... Be smart.
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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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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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To become a business tycoon you must believe you're the best. If you're not, act like it & you'll become.Believe in yourself & never give up.
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Dream big, but stay humble.
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Your state of mind is the most important factor in the outcome of your life.
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If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress.
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If you make a mistake, don’t spend precious time and energy trying to deny it or point the finger at someone else. Be a leader and own it, then spend your time and energy fixing the problem. As I’ve already noted, start-ups often fail because founders want to be seen as the smartest person in the room, which means not being wrong. Making a mistake is going to happen. None of us is perfect. But the difference between success and failure is how you handle that mistake.
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A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values ... and a heart.
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This Syrian circus/crisis we are going through is hilarious... It’s like watching some thug killing another person and asking him for his bullets but releasing him free.
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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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Excuses are useless. Results are priceless.
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We are on the edge of economic collapse unless we wake up and forcibly take back control of our government and economy. Over the past 100 years, the game has been rigged, slowly and piecemeal at first, always in the name of serving the greater good, preventing the next bubble or providing greater transparency and security. It is as if the American people are suffering from battered spouse syndrome; the politicians, the greedy bankers, and the Fed all lie to us while they steal our wealth and our liberty. Every time we call them on it, they promise to never do it again if we’ll just give them one more chance. So we let it slide and then act shocked when they do it to us again. Maybe we should have our collective head examined.
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Entrepreneurs are all unique. One way to build a business and turn it into a brand is to know who you are.
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If you’re going to do something, do something that matters. Don't waste your time doing stupid things with even bigger losers going nowhere.
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The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.