Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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We live in an era of smart phones and stupid people.... Go figure.
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I believe if we let go of Assad now, we might as well forget the whole region.
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Don't think outside the box. Think like there is no box.
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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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Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
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I am not interested in power for power's sake. Only interested in power that will allow people to liberate themselves from Big Brother.
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Any deal that recognizes Iran "right" to enrich is a prelude to fiasco and tragedy.
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The more we ignore Assad and negotiate an appeasement with Iran, the more Sunni and Shia extremists will multiply and flood Syria.
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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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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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If you have the guts to do anything,then you better save enough to face the consequences. Becoming bigger than life requires guts & instinct.
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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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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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Before you Judge me, make sure you're Perfect.
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I don’t see any dearth of women leaders, it’s a question of what we consider a woman leader.
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The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.
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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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Unfortunately most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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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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Work smart, stay informed, never give up, and great things will happen.
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We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
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May my haters live very long to see my continued success and make their lives miserable.
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It is an oft-repeated axiom that a person can learn a whole lot about a society by how it treats its poor; but just as much may be learned by looking at how that same society treats its rich. Indeed, the economic future of the poor—and our nation—will be determined in the coming decades by how we treat the people in this country who create great wealth. It will be determined by our understanding of the so-called rich and by our need to foster and protect this minority of true wealth creators.
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If you're always telling people why you can't do something, if you parse everything and nitpick, I've got news for you: You're not going anywhere. If you want to make it in this world, learn to say, "sure, no problem." Practice. It's good for you. When is the last time you went on a limb trusting your gut feeling?