Ziad Abdelnour Quotes

Before you Judge me, make sure you're Perfect.

Too many people today on Wall Street go for the quick
buck at the expense of their reputation and client satisfaction, the
rationale being “let’s make the money while we can and retire early
in the sun.” For me, this is not a sprint but a marathon, besides the
fact that, in my definition, overnight success is 15 years. Anyone who
does not understand the basic tenets of this philosophy is not someone
I can or will do business with.

We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

Humility is the flipside of pride. It doesn’t mean suddenly being selfless; it means realizing that others might have a better answer than you or a better solution. It means accepting you might not always be the smartest person in the room. Being confident and humble are not mutually exclusive. Embracing humility will help give you an open mind and a clearer vision of how to beat the odds and make your start-up a success.

Forget the housing, bond or derivatives bubbles … Fraud Is the Biggest Bubble of all time

I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough.

Never measure your life by possessions. Measure it by the hearts you've touched, the smiles you created & the love you shared.

It is an oft-repeated axiom that a person can learn a whole lot about
a society by how it treats its poor; but just as much may be learned
by looking at how that same society treats its rich. Indeed, the economic
future of the poor — and our nation — will be determined in the coming decades by how we treat the people in this country who create great wealth. It will be determined by our understanding of the
so-called rich and by our need to foster and protect this minority of
true wealth creators.

Drugs have destroyed many people. But wrong government policies have destroyed many more.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.

You shouldn't retire until your money starts making more money than you made in your best year.

"You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers"."

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.

Courage is not the absence of fear; only a fool has no fear. Courage is seeing the fear and continuing to proceed.

The only reason people hold onto memories is because memories are the only things that don't change, even when everyone else does.