Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.
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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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One of the advantages of living in a constitutional federal republic is that we have the ability, if not the duty, as citizens to repair or replace those acts of legislation under which we have agreed to live. We must act when it has become evident that said legislation no longer serves us as a people or advances the principles upon which this nation was founded, one of these being “the pursuit of happiness,” which may only be secured through wealth creation. If it burdens the debt obligation of the government, it cannot be creating wealth. If it does not advance the cause of regaining American competitive dominance in the global marketplace, it is not creating wealth. If legislation and regulation were proposed that taught people how to fish instead of providing fish, then the unemployed would find a way to create jobs for each other. Wealth creation is mankind’s natural objective when given the opportunity. and the tools.
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The Lebanese banking system helps Iran, Syria & Hezbollah evade sanctions.
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Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.
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Start-ups fail for a lot of different reasons, but one I see repeatedly is ego. It presents as a dangerous sense of self-importance. Or the entrepreneur thinks they are the smartest person in the room who knows better than anyone else and either doesn’t seek out advice or doesn’t want to listen when it’s offered. Such know-it-alls delude themselves into thinking they have everything figured out, even though they don’t. For as hard as it is to elbow your way into the marketplace in ideal circumstances, it’s made exponentially harder when you don’t check your ego at the door.
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Age is just reality we create for ourselves.
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We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
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Work smart, stay informed, never give up, and great things will happen.
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What is the difference between a parasite and a liberal? The spelling!
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If money can't buy you happiness then you probably aren't making enough.
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My book is not for everyone in the venture capital and entrepreneurial world, and that’s okay. If you try to please everybody and worry about offending anybody, nothing is going to happen. You might make some money, but you certainly won’t create wealth.
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You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".
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People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.
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Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. You get in return what you give.
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Remember...Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.
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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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The biggest threat to American power in the long run is the persistent decline in its middle class standard of living today.
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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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You shouldn't retire until your money starts making more money than you made in your best year.
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I personally believe mavericks are people who write their own rulebook. They are the ones who act first and talk later. They are fiercely independent thinkers who know how to fight the lizard brain (to use Seth Godin’s term). I don’t believe many are born, rather they are products of an environment, or their experiences. They are usually the people that find the accepted norm does not meet their requirements and have the self-confidence, appetite, independence, degree of self reliance and sufficient desire to carve out their own niche in life. I believe a maverick thinker can take a new idea, champion it, and push it beyond the ability of a normal person to do so. I also believe the best mavericks can build a team, can motivate with their vision, their passion, and can pull together others to accomplish great things. A wise maverick knows that they need others to give full form to their views and can gather these necessary contributors around them. Mavericks, in my experience, fall into various categories – a/ the totally off-the-wall, uncontrollable genius who won’t listen to anyone; b/ the person who thinks that they have the ONLY solution to a challenge but prepared to consider others’ views on how to conquer the world &, finally, the person who thinks laterally to overcome problems considered to be irresolvable. I like in particular the third category. The upside is that mavericks, because of their different outlook on life, often sees opportunities and solutions that others cannot. But the downside is that often, because in life there is always some degree of luck in success (i.e. being in the right place at the right time), mavericks that fail are often ridiculed for their unorthodox approach. However when they succeed they are acclaimed for their inspiration. It is indeed a fine line they walk in life.
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I am not in the market to create jobs, build an empire, or leave a legacy; those are the positive fallout of successful economic warfare. My prime objective is wealth creation.
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Do you want to be super successful? Never appeal to people’s mercy or gratitude... Appeal only to their self-interest & see the results.