Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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Never measure your life by possessions. Measure it by the hearts you've touched, the smiles you created & the love you shared.
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Your past mistakes are meant to guide you, not define you.
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There are two things you should never waste your time on: things that don’t matter and people that think you don’t matter.
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History clearly shows that governments that have tried to contain, regulate, or otherwise usurp capital have failed. It is the same with brainpower; no one has a monopoly on brainpower. Controlling brainpower is like herding cats. Brainpower creates capital, and capital fuels brainpower. It is a fundamental dynamic principle. Great ideas, solutions, insights, or inventions will develop only where they are nurtured and properly rewarded.
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Achievers move forward at all times. Achievement is not a plateau, it's a beginning.
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Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful.
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If you want to raise your standard of living, raise your standard of giving.
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Governments' programs once launched unfortunately never disappear...Get real.
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Three things you cannot recover in life: the WORD after it’s said, the MOMENT after it’s missed and the TIME after it’s gone. Now you know.
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For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
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The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.... Always remember that.
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Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
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I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.
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100 Years Is Enough: Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility.
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Don't think outside the box. Think like there is no box.
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I remain fundamentally optimistic about Wall Street as a marketplace and as a vehicle for wealth creation. Its future will rightly depend on several variables, chief among them being human choices; whether they be rationally, emotionally, subjectively or objectively made. Financial engineering taught us that if it could be quantified, it could be qualified. We learned about how to use leverage and have abused that knowledge for a myriad of reasons. We became practitioners of the transaction-based model, but forgot that long before the abacus there was trust and integrity, anchors of relationship-based models common with Middle East and Asian markets. It goes back to a handshake, the first and enduring example of mutual consensus.
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Don't turn around. Don't look back. Keep moving forward. Keep pushing. The pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow, not the beginning.
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Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others.
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Haters are sometimes people who can't understand why everybody loves you.
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You are only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with, so be brave enough to let go those who keep weighing you down.
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The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.
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The secret to making money isn't working at a high-paying job, it’s finding creative solutions to people’s problems.
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If money can't buy you happiness then you probably aren't making enough.
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Be dissatisfied with what is, but remain visionary of what can be done.