Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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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Well behaved people and dreamers seldom make history. In fact, history has no place for such people.
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Some people dream of success, others stay awake to achieve it.
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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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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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You can make excuses and you can make money, but you cannot make both.
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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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The Fed’s policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.
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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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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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If you look at big companies, only 1/3 of them will exist in 2 decades.
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People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.
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I'd rather look back at my past and say, "I can't believe I did that!" instead of saying "I wish I did that.
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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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Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless.
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Affordable Care Act" roll out isn't Obama's fault. It's what happens when you elect a President without any real-world business experience.
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You shouldn't retire until your money starts making more money than you made in your best year.
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Frankly speaking, making money isn't hard in itself... What's real hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.
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Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.
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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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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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When people tell you that this venerable firm or private investor invested X millions of dollars in that entity and that it is a good investment, be skeptical and stay open to the option of running as far as you can in the opposite direction. We have all seen the biggest names on Wall Street along with the largest sovereign wealth funds on the planet make the dumbest investments ever made. Do your due diligence; ask the right questions, and most important, check out the character of the people involved unless you want to end up being prey to another master of the universe à la Bernie Madoff.
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The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. Educate and Empower & see the results.