Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.
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Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.
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To be real successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish; then resolve to pay the price to get it.
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If money can't buy you happiness then you probably aren't making enough.
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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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Be dissatisfied with what is, but remain visionary of what can be done.
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Never let your feelings get too deep, people can change at any moment.
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Achievers move forward at all times. Achievement is not a plateau, it's a beginning.
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Be a good person but do not waste time to prove it.
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When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.
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The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.... Always remember that.
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Capitalism without Bankruptcy is like Catholicism without Hell.
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Your past mistakes are meant to guide you, not define you.
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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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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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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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We were born a nation of entrepreneurs. That is why so many people came to this country from so many different nations and cultures around the globe. The entrepreneur sees the opportunity, takes action, and successfully learns from the experience. They go on to create wealth. They become part of that demographic that is called “the rich.” They, not the government, drive the economy and create jobs. Only a mind with an envious, greedy perspective would consider punitively taxing the rich as a viable solution to our fiscal miasma. This is a solution springing from the fount of ignorance and deemed wise only by fools.
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Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action.
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We need to empower every single child no matter who you are, no matter where you come from to have the best education and the best future.
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The question is not whether we should or should not regulate; it is how much should we regulate and who the regulators should be. We went overboard on deregulation under Reagan. Under Bush, many people lost in the casino. Now we have the Obama administration overreacting and overreaching with regulation that does the exact opposite of wealth creation. If we are to have change we can believe in, then we could start by replacing the majority of the lawyers in regulatory agencies with actual experienced, successful business veterans. They would have recognized the early warning signs of many of the financial debacles created by the bubble-bust cycle.
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Look how many of our young are ill prepared to enter adult life today. This was designed by progressives to create government dependency.
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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is always bad for your health.
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We live in an era of smart phones and stupid people.... Go figure.
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Difference between rich and wealthy? Wall Street bankers are rich but they are no wealthy.Wealthy people are the ones writing their checks.