Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
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Be a good person but do not waste time to prove it.
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No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.
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Before you Judge me, make sure you're Perfect.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Achievers move forward at all times. Achievement is not a plateau, it's a beginning.
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When backing companies, I always look for industries that are ripe for disruption.
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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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Be dissatisfied with what is, but remain visionary of what can be done.
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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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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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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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When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.
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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.