Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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At $4 trillion, and roughly only $55 billion in equity, the Fed is leveraged about 77-to-1. They define the word - leverage.
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No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.
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Be a good person but do not waste time to prove it.
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The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.... Always remember that.
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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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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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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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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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Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, and make you happy. If you know people who do none of these things, let them go.
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Haters are sometimes people who can't understand why everybody loves you.
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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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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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You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.
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Achievers move forward at all times. Achievement is not a plateau, it's a beginning.
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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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Lots of folks want success without sacrifice. Life doesn't work that way. Be willing to pay the price for your dreams.
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When backing companies, I always look for industries that are ripe for disruption.
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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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The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.
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Be dissatisfied with what is, but remain visionary of what can be done.
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Don't think outside the box. Think like there is no box.
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Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.