Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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If you look at big companies, only 1/3 of them will exist in 2 decades.
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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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Create enterprise, live on your own terms, and you’ll find the key to happiness.
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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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You can make excuses and you can make money, but you cannot make both.
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Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.
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Success is not found in what you have achieved but rather in who you have become.
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Always remember: Power in the wrong hands can destroy the owner. The same power that gave victory to Samson is what destroyed him.
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Don't blame people for who they are, blame yourself for thinking they were different.
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No one is fearless. The difference between achievers and everyone else is that they take action despite their fears.
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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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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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Until Americans stop getting distracted by the Republicans v/s Democrats melodrama, America will move forward towards war, empire & eventually collapse.
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Success is no accident or serendipity. I had all the odds against me, and I crushed each and everyone along the way. Not because I was a Democrat or a Republican. Not because of my attitudes about social issues. Not because of what my background is or isn’t. Not because people think I’m a nice guy. I succeeded because I’m a capitalist, I’m an entrepreneur, and I’m a warrior. That is the mindset I want to teach others so they can create their own wealth and American success story.
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People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.
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Higher education is an advantage, no longer a guarantee.
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It is usually the roughest road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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A lot of men have lost money chasing women. But no man has ever lost women chasing money.
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We fear rejection, want attention, crave affection and dream of perfection.
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The NSA is the only branch of the government that actually listens to people.
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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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Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. You get in return what you give.
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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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Before you Judge me, make sure you're Perfect.