Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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Well behaved people and dreamers seldom make history. In fact, history has no place for such people.
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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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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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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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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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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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Maturity comes with experience, not age.
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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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In Life you don't get what you deserve you get what you negotiate...
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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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Money does not change people, it unmasks them.
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Never allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
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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.
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Wanna run a killer business? Design it from the start so that it's leverageable, expandable, predictable & financeable - & you're unstoppable.
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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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Behind each person is an utter mystery, supreme value. The more we recognize this the better we ALL get.
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The NSA is the only branch of the government that actually listens to people.
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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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Life is way too short not to love what you do, why you do it, and who you do it with.
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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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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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Never forget who was with you from the start....The people who stick by you at your worst, deserve to enjoy being with you at your best.