Ziad Abdelnour Quotes

A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values ... and a heart.

I believe the people who are most successful are those committed to bringing out the best in other people through awakening & empowerment.

Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.

Money is a tool that can either fix or damage your life. Use it wisely.

There is nothing inherently evil in the process of making money,
and the notion is illogical, but that is one of the underlying tenets
in our present education system. We are taught from an early age
that making money is hard and that those who make lots of money
are morally suspect. American culture studies programs at some of
the nation’s leading universities have even gone so far as to teach the
absurd and illogical notion that the rich became rich because they
enjoy privilege earned on the backs of African slaves. Minority
millionaires like entrepreneur Herman Cain, Earl Graves, Sr., and
Reginald F. Lewis prove the utter nonsense of this notion, yet this
is the illogical Progressive philosophy that has permeated our education
system.

Job tip: If you were the employer, what kind of person would you most desire as an employee? Be that person.

I remain fundamentally optimistic about
Wall Street as a marketplace and as a vehicle for wealth creation. Its
future will rightly depend on several variables, chief among them
being human choices; whether they be rationally, emotionally, subjectively
or objectively made. Financial engineering taught us that if
it could be quantified, it could be qualified. We learned about how
to use leverage and have abused that knowledge for a myriad of
reasons. We became practitioners of the transaction-based model, but forgot that long before the abacus there was trust and integrity,
anchors of relationship-based models common with Middle East and
Asian markets. It goes back to a handshake, the first and enduring
example of mutual consensus.

The Key point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Too often entrepreneurs are reactive to the challenges inherent when building a company... the most successful founders are proactive.

Building a business doesn't mean getting venture capital funding. It means finding customers and making money.

Power people wear power like a coat of arms. If can't sense them on the spot you don't know what power is.

Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not.

Financial crises are not natural disasters. They are man-made disasters.

History clearly
shows that governments that have tried to contain, regulate, or otherwise
usurp capital have failed. It is the same with brainpower; no
one has a monopoly on brainpower. Controlling brainpower is like
herding cats. Brainpower creates capital, and capital fuels brainpower.
It is a fundamental dynamic principle. Great ideas, solutions, insights,
or inventions will develop only where they are nurtured and properly
rewarded.

As you get older you'll understand that it's not about what you look like or what you own, it's all about the person you've become.