Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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I'm not Democrat or Republican: I Vote Entrepreneur.
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I strongly believe in the fact that there’s still plenty of money and plenty of private equity capital available around the globe. What are in short supply are great entrepreneurs and great teams. A trading opportunity or a company’s biggest challenge is and has always been the team behind it. There’s enormous change under way in every facet of the world. Some is technology driven, some is market driven. All that change creates unprecedented opportunity, but to take full advantage of such opportunities I mostly focus on the team. The right teams and right people behind those opportunities always win. There is no secret sauce. Trading and investing has, in my experience, boiled down to building relationships and exchanging value. It consists of striking the right balance between backing and interacting with the right teams with the right business model at the right time and with the right amount of money.
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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 need to be loyal to the people who have helped you in the past & gave you a break when you were not a big player.
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Never ask a question if you can’t handle the answer.
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Alwasy remember.... We are engaged in a battle for the continuation of our capitalist, free-market economic model; our way of life; and our liberty. The enemy is anticapitalist, believes in big government, embraces collectivist ideologies, and has, over the past century, infiltrated every level of our government and most of the banking industry. They don’t care about patriotism, although they may sport the red, white, and blue and the stars and stripes on their bumper stickers. They don’t care about personal responsibility or civic duty. They don’t share your sense of honor. All they care about is power and control over your money and every aspect of your life.
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My favorite people are the ones that can make any unfunny joke hilarious by just laughing.
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For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
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If more people learned to understand their real business interests correctly and to act accordingly, we would have a much better world.
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Money does not change people, it unmasks them.
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Never forget who was with you from the start....The people who stick by you at your worst, deserve to enjoy being with you at your best.
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The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.
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Make the money, don't let the money make you.. Change the game, don't let the game change you
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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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Since the dawn of the twentieth century, we have been told that the federal government has the answers to solve all of society’s problems. We have been promised, by supposedly serious men who have sworn an oath before God and man, that if we just give Washington, D.C., more of our money and more of our personal freedom, the problems of poverty, illiteracy, racism, unemployment, crime, and corruption will all be solved. Today, each and every one of these problems is worse than it has ever been. The federal government and its blood-sucking bureaucracies do not have a solution to the problem, they are the problem.
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You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate.
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You can't make people work harder. People have to want to work hard and make a difference. Purpose matters.
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5 rules to live a happier life: 1) Love yourself. 2) Do good. 3) Always forgive. 4) Harm no one. 5) Be positive.
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If the world economy is going to revive, I believe commodities are going to lead it back up. If the world economy is not going to revive, commodities are still the place to be—especially with governments printing so much money. Look at the 1970s. The world economy was in the tank, but commodities did very well.
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Power people wear power like a coat of arms. If can't sense them on the spot you don't know what power is.
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If wealth is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
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Be a good person but do not waste time to prove it.
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Difference between being Rich and Being Wealthy? Time...Nothing is more important than TIME... can't buy it back ever.
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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.