Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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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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The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.... Always remember that.
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Be a good person but do not waste time to prove it.
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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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Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
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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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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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100 Years Is Enough: Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility.
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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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Achievers move forward at all times. Achievement is not a plateau, it's a beginning.
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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 be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful.
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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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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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Haters are sometimes people who can't understand why everybody loves you.
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If money can't buy you happiness then you probably aren't making enough.
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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 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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Don't think outside the box. Think like there is no box.
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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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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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When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.
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The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.