Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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I strongly believe that the best economic policy for any administration is the one that seeks to produce more entrepreneurs, not just more minimally educated college graduates with nowhere to go. Nothing against recent college graduates, but many of today’s best universities are no longer providing the basics of a classical liberal education. “I strongly believe that the best economic policy for any administration is the one that seeks to produce more entrepreneurs, not just more minimally educated college graduates with nowhere to go. Nothing against recent college graduates, but many of today’s best universities are no longer providing the basics of a classical liberal education. That is why the single most important economic issue of our time—and one that impacts the poor and middle class alike—will be how we treat the entrepreneurs and wealth creators among us, from both the government and the private-sector viewpoints.
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Sometimes the hardest things in life are what make you the strongest.
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People come and go, but life is simply about seeing who cares enough to stay.
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Unless you choose to do great things with your life it makes no difference how much money you make or how much power you have.
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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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Success is not found in what you have achieved but rather in who you have become.
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Having loads of money doesn't make you a better person.. Spending it smart does.
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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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History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.
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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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Before you Judge me, make sure you're Perfect.
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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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Female Viagra has been around for years...it's called money.
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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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We need to empower every single child no matter who you are, no matter where you come from to have the best education and the best future.
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Maturity comes with experience, not age.
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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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Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.
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There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Don't bother.
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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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Frankly speaking, making money isn't hard in itself... What's real hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
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Make decisions even with incomplete info. You'll never have all the info you need. What matters is what you do with the info you have.
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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.