Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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I don’t see any dearth of women leaders, it’s a question of what we consider a woman leader.
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The more we ignore Assad and negotiate an appeasement with Iran, the more Sunni and Shia extremists will multiply and flood Syria.
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Our debts don't leave us much in terms of choices. We can choose to pay now or try to pay later. But the longer we wait the steeper the bill.
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Higher education is an advantage, no longer a guarantee.
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Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it. Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo? I didn’t.
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Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.
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Create enterprise, live on your own terms, and you’ll find the key to happiness.
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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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It is usually the roughest road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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My favorite people are the ones that can make any unfunny joke hilarious by just laughing.
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Root cause of inequality is the mass scale digital disruption advantage as means of wealth creation is concentrated.
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You can make excuses and you can make money, but you cannot make both.
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Business Fights Poverty Better Than Charity Does.
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Remember... People can always threaten your very life but they can never take away your dreams.
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You determine how far you go in life, nobody else.
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This nation was founded on the principle of wealth creation. As a young Henry Clay said in the House of Representatives in 1812, “It wealth creation is a passion as unconquerable as any with which nature has endowed us. You may attempt to regulate—you cannot destroy it.” That is supposed to be the federal government’s primary objective. It is supposed to promote the creation of an environment conducive to the creation of wealth—not job creation, not bailouts, not subsidies, not expansion of the federal bureaucracy, and not providing lifetime support to those who choose not to take advantage of the innumerable opportunities that exist in this nation for them to create a better, more productive life for themselves.
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Job tip: If you were the employer, what kind of person would you most desire as an employee? Be that person.
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The best way to protect yourself and your family in this time of uncertainty is to create wealth for yourself.
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If you look at big companies, only 1/3 of them will exist in 2 decades.
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I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time.
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We are today engaged in a war. It is an economic war over our sovereignty as human beings with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The “pursuit of happiness” means the right to create wealth through our labor and to enjoy the fruits thereof. The battle now is over who has the moral, the ethical, and the legal right to the fruits of our labor. Are we to be free, or are we to be slaves? Just whose money is it anyway?
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Never allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
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There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!