Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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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 trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life...
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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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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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Once you find your dream, risk everything to make it come true.
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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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Putting your pride first makes the results come in second, at best.
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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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People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.
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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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Some people dream of success, others stay awake to achieve it.
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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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The biggest threat to American power in the long run is the persistent decline in its middle class standard of living today.
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Central planning inevitably leads to economic chaos and failure. Friedrich Hayek called the delusion that a single person or a group of government planners could possibly possess the knowledge to plan an entire economy a “fatal conceit.” The overwhelming historical evidence is that the more freedom a nation has, the more economic opportunities will exist and the more dynamic that nation’s economy will be. Likewise, the more regulations, controls, taxes, governmentrun industries, protectionism, and other forms of interventionism that exists, the poorer the country will become.
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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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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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We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
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Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless.
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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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You can make excuses and you can make money, but you cannot make both.
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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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Great wealth is often created by the launching of great surprises, not by the launching of great enterprises.
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The future belongs to those who innovate.