Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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Putting your pride first makes the results come in second, at best.
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Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people; it’s about retaining them.
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Most leadership writing today advises us on how to prosper within the system. I believe real leadership is about transforming the system.
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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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No matter how far down a path you go, if it's the wrong path, turn around and go back home - before it is too late.
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Remember this... People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.
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Start-ups fail for a lot of different reasons, but one I see repeatedly is ego. It presents as a dangerous sense of self-importance. Or the entrepreneur thinks they are the smartest person in the room who knows better than anyone else and either doesn’t seek out advice or doesn’t want to listen when it’s offered. Such know-it-alls delude themselves into thinking they have everything figured out, even though they don’t. For as hard as it is to elbow your way into the marketplace in ideal circumstances, it’s made exponentially harder when you don’t check your ego at the door.
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A lot of men have lost money chasing women. But no man has ever lost women chasing money.
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Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.
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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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May my haters live very long to see my continued success and make their lives miserable.
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After analyzing our current crisis and studying well-established historical precedents, I must conclude that the global bankers have only three possible cards left to play. The first is admitting culpability and working to restore the American economic engine to its free-market potential. History has taught us that the ruling class rarely admits error and never concedes power. The second is to foment so much civil unrest and fear that the general population will be clamoring for a global dictator who will provide them food, shelter, and security in exchange for their individual freedom and sovereignty. I see the emerging militancy of the labor union movement playing right into this scenario. The final play is global conflict where they can try and control the outcome by means of funding both sides.
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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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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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You always invest the money you earn. That's the only way you can really speed up your fortune.
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I strongly support liquidating the corporation that is the Federal Reserve and returning to a monetary system based on a marketproduced precious metal, like gold, which is represented by a currency printed and managed by the U.S. Treasury Department as stipulated by our Constitution. The assets currently owned by the Fed should be liquidated and parceled out on a pro-rata basis to its creditors. All we need is the will.
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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 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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You know you have a transparency problem when citizens of a democracy need to rely on WikiLeaks for details on changes to laws.
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Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. You get in return what you give.
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We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
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It is usually the roughest road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.
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People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.