Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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Money is a form of wealth. But wealth is not necessarily money. Wealth encompasses much more than material possessions or cash; it includes resources. My book is all about wealth creation. This has been my theme, my philosophy for years. It’s all about wealth creation.
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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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After all is said and done, I believe the true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
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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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We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
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Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.
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Female Viagra has been around for years...it's called money.
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The only reason people hold onto memories is because memories are the only things that don't change, even when everyone else does.
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Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.
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Remember...Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.
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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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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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Before you Judge me, make sure you're Perfect.
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The NSA is the only branch of the government that actually listens to people.
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Our debts don't leave us much in terms of choices. We can choose to pay now or try to pay later. But the longer we wait the steeper the bill.
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Remember... People can always threaten your very life but they can never take away your dreams.
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Success is not found in what you have achieved but rather in who you have become.
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The Fed’s policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.
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The wealth of America isn’t an inventory of goods; it’s an organic, living entity, a fragile, pulsing fabric of ideas, expectations, loyalties, moral commitments, visions, and people. To slice it up like an apple pie and redistribute it would destroy it just as surely as trying to share Stephen Hawking’s intellect by sharing slices of his brain would surely kill him.
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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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If riding the bus or the subway doesn't incentivize you to improve your station in life, nothing will.
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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.