Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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Until the Fed lets us have a real recession, as painful as that may be, we are never gonna have a recovery.
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Most people quit because they look how far they have to go, not how far they have come.
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Work smart, stay informed, never give up, and great things will happen.
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Never let your feelings get too deep, people can change at any moment.
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Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people; it’s about retaining them.
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We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
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Putting your pride first makes the results come in second, at best.
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You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question of time.
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Remember this... People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.
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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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Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.
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I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you.
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Money does not change people, it unmasks them.
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Sometimes people try to expose what's wrong with you, because they can't handle what's right about 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 know you have a transparency problem when citizens of a democracy need to rely on WikiLeaks for details on changes to laws.
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May my haters live very long to see my continued success and make their lives miserable.
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We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius.
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When people tell you that this venerable firm or private investor invested X millions of dollars in that entity and that it is a good investment, be skeptical and stay open to the option of running as far as you can in the opposite direction. We have all seen the biggest names on Wall Street along with the largest sovereign wealth funds on the planet make the dumbest investments ever made. Do your due diligence; ask the right questions, and most important, check out the character of the people involved unless you want to end up being prey to another master of the universe à la Bernie Madoff.
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The Lebanese banking system helps Iran, Syria & Hezbollah evade sanctions.
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Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
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The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life...
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Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless.