Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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I believe the only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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A good bank is the one that does good to its community and a bad bank is the one that feeds the avarice of corrupt individuals. Very simple.
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You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question of time.
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Life is not something that "has" meaning. It's something we give meaning to. You don't "end up" with a meaningful life, you create it.
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Until the Fed lets us have a real recession, as painful as that may be, we are never gonna have a recovery.
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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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It is an oft-repeated axiom that a person can learn a whole lot about a society by how it treats its poor; but just as much may be learned by looking at how that same society treats its rich. Indeed, the economic future of the poor—and our nation—will be determined in the coming decades by how we treat the people in this country who create great wealth. It will be determined by our understanding of the so-called rich and by our need to foster and protect this minority of true wealth creators.
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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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The NSA is the only branch of the government that actually listens to people.
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Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.
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After all is said and done, you are free to choose but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.
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We need a reset in the way the economy grows around the world.
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Age is just reality we create for ourselves.
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Sometimes people try to expose what's wrong with you, because they can't handle what's right about you.
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Business Fights Poverty Better Than Charity Does.
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It is usually the roughest road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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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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Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people; it’s about retaining them.
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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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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 Lebanese banking system helps Iran, Syria & Hezbollah evade sanctions.
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Some people dream of success, others stay awake to achieve it.
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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.