Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.
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You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".
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What is the difference between a parasite and a liberal? The spelling!
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There is nothing inherently evil in the process of making money, and the notion is illogical, but that is one of the underlying tenets in our present education system. We are taught from an early age that making money is hard and that those who make lots of money are morally suspect. American culture studies programs at some of the nation’s leading universities have even gone so far as to teach the absurd and illogical notion that the rich became rich because they enjoy privilege earned on the backs of African slaves. Minority millionaires like entrepreneur Herman Cain, Earl Graves, Sr., and Reginald F. Lewis prove the utter nonsense of this notion, yet this is the illogical Progressive philosophy that has permeated our education system.
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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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You can make excuses and you can make money, but you cannot make both.
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People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.
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Central planning inevitably leads to economic chaos and failure. Friedrich Hayek called the delusion that a single person or a group of government planners could possibly possess the knowledge to plan an entire economy a “fatal conceit.” The overwhelming historical evidence is that the more freedom a nation has, the more economic opportunities will exist and the more dynamic that nation’s economy will be. Likewise, the more regulations, controls, taxes, governmentrun industries, protectionism, and other forms of interventionism that exists, the poorer the country will become.
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People aren't born good or bad. It's the way you live your life that matters and how many people you inspire and empower after you're gone.
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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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If you look at big companies, only 1/3 of them will exist in 2 decades.
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We have become a nation incapable of living within our means. We seem incapable of accepting the reality that owning a home is not and never was intended to be a right. It is a reward for working hard and saving up enough money to not only purchase a property, but to maintain and improve it.
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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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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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Always remember: Power in the wrong hands can destroy the owner. The same power that gave victory to Samson is what destroyed him.
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Until Americans stop getting distracted by the Republicans v/s Democrats melodrama, America will move forward towards war, empire & eventually collapse.
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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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Either find a way, or make one....You can bend but you can never break if you want to achieve excellence.
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There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.
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Behind each person is an utter mystery, supreme value. The more we recognize this the better we ALL get.
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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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Sometimes people try to expose what's wrong with you, because they can't handle what's right about you.
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Success is not found in what you have achieved but rather in who you have become.
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Putting your pride first makes the results come in second, at best.