Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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People are only loyal until it becomes convenient not to be.
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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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You can make excuses and you can make money, but you cannot make both.
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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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Unfortunately most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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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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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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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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People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in 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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There are two things you should never waste your time on: things that don’t matter and people that think you don’t matter.
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Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.
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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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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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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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The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed.
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Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless.
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If you can’t fire your best friend or your brother, don’t hire them.
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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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Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.
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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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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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Some people dream of success, others stay awake to achieve it.