Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Never ask a question if you can’t handle the answer.”

“I'm not Democrat or Republican: I Vote Entrepreneur”

“We’ve been so afraid; so hell bent on destroying enemies; both foreign and domestic, we’ve hurt ourselves and our democracy. Time to wake up.”

“Getting to the future is always held up by those trying to protect the past.”

“What's wealth but the means of expanding one's life? Why the constant wealth bashing nowadays?”

“Never let yourself be pushed around--but treat the good people great.”

“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.”

“One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.”

“There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.”

“Well behaved people and dreamers seldom make history. In fact, history has no place for such people.”

“Until a person finds something to die for, he or she has nothing to live for.”

“It's all about the ripple effects of “wealth creation”. What comes after you make it matters much more than before.”

“Don't promise when you're happy, Don't reply when you're angry, and don't decide when you're sad.”

“Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.”

“A man with money is no match against a man on a mission. After all, money can’t buy you immortality.”

“Chase your dreams but always know the road that will lead you home again.”

“Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are.”

“I believe the lion’s share of the history of the 21st century is going to play out in the Asian Pacific region not the US.”

“If more people learned to understand their real business interests correctly and to act accordingly, we would have a much better world.”

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

“I believe the LIE that prosecuting bank fraud will destabilize the U.S economy is what is really destroying it.”

“Wealth comes from big goals and sustained action toward those goals every day....Never surrender.”

“The biggest threat to American power in the long run is the persistent decline in its middle class standard of living today.”

“Funny how the U.S. sends in the military to fight “terrorists” in any country which has resources it wants....”

“Live for what you believe in ... and die for it too.”

“There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that seek power over others have gained the upperhand against those that seek freedom. By harming wealth creation,they cause even more strain on society. Historically, this is nothingnew. State domination over its subjects has roots that connect statism,totalitarianism, communism, and socialism to more modern-day variantsof liberalism and progressivism. It is a constant fight and we mustwin.”

“After analyzing our current crisis and studying well-establishedhistorical precedents, I must conclude that the global bankers haveonly three possible cards left to play.The first is admitting culpability and working to restore theAmerican economic engine to its free-market potential. History hastaught us that the ruling class rarely admits error and never concedespower.The second is to foment so much civil unrest and fear that thegeneral population will be clamoring for a global dictator who willprovide them food, shelter, and security in exchange for their individualfreedom and sovereignty. I see the emerging militancy of thelabor union movement playing right into this scenario.The final play is global conflict where they can try and controlthe outcome by means of funding both sides.”

“I believe the United States government is beingsystematically taken over by a revolutionary network. They call themselvesProgressives, but we know they are really leftist radicals,dedicated to the demise of the free-market capitalist system. They haveco-opted and bought off leaders of both the Republican and Democraticparties, established a dominant role in all three branches ofgovernment and thoroughly co-opted the mainstream media.”

“We are today engaged in a war. It is an economic war over oursovereignty as human beings with inalienable rights to life, liberty, andthe pursuit of happiness. The “pursuit of happiness” means the rightto create wealth through our labor and to enjoy the fruits thereof.The battle now is over who has the moral, the ethical, and the legalright to the fruits of our labor. Are we to be free, or are we to beslaves? Just whose money is it anyway?”

“We live in a society that is based on 30-second sound bites. We havetechnology that puts all of the information of humankind at our fingertips,but we have the attention span of a three-year-old at a carnivalmidway on the Fourth of July. We throw around a lot of words likedemocracy, federal, republic, nationalist, socialist, liberal, and right-wing—butdo we really know what they mean?”

“We have become a nation incapable of living within ourmeans. We seem incapable of accepting the reality that owning ahome is not and never was intended to be a right. It is a reward forworking hard and saving up enough money to not only purchase aproperty, but to maintain and improve it.”

“We are on the edge of economic collapse unless we wake up andforcibly take back control of our government and economy. Over thepast 100 years, the game has been rigged, slowly and piecemeal atfirst, always in the name of serving the greater good, preventing thenext bubble or providing greater transparency and security. It is as ifthe American people are suffering from battered spouse syndrome; thepoliticians, the greedy bankers, and the Fed all lie to us while theysteal our wealth and our liberty. Every time we call them on it, theypromise to never do it again if we’ll just give them one more chance.So we let it slide and then act shocked when they do it to us again.Maybe we should have our collective head examined.”

“The recession, which started in 2007, is ongoing. Theunderlying fundamental causes of the meltdown have not beenaddressed. Banks are still not lending. Companies are still not hiring.Congress has still not seriously addressed the growing debt. Neitherhas Congress checked its own out-of-control spending. The muchlauded reforms installed by Frank-Dodd are nothing more than anotherexpansion of federal government control over the engines of wealthcreation.”

“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 applepie and redistribute it would destroy it just as surely as trying to shareStephen Hawking’s intellect by sharing slices of his brain would surelykill him.”

“Socialism tends to destroy wealth. Socialism does this by drainingits vitality away. It does this by destroying the desirability of wealthas a wholesome value. Socialism kills the chance that any communitycan survive by browbeating the concept of vested ownership, onwhich community survival is always dependent in the end.”

“Great wealth is often created by the launching of great surprises, not by the launching of great enterprises.”

“It is an oft-repeated axiom that a person can learn a whole lot abouta society by how it treats its poor; but just as much may be learnedby looking at how that same society treats its rich. Indeed, the economicfuture 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 theso-called rich and by our need to foster and protect this minority oftrue wealth creators.”

“Almost every Fed chairman in the past 60 years has manipulatedinterest rates to brighten the economic outlook for incumbent presidentsor newly elected presidents who won by large margins. Thepurchasing power of the U.S. dollar has fallen 94 percent in the past100 years. The only way you can create inflation is by creating moremoney that is backed by the same reserve assets; the Fed is the onlyentity that can create more money. Ben Bernanke’s quantitative easing(QE) programs have pumped billions of unfunded dollars into theeconomy, thereby setting us up for massive inflation in the very nearfuture. If this isn’t a form of financial terrorism, it is incompetence of the highest order.”

“We are in an economic war. It is a war between those who createwealth and those who believe they have some sort of divine mandateto appropriate wealth. They don’t have such an authoritative command.I don’t think they ever did. We have tried their command-andcontrolmethods for nearly a century because they said they knewbetter. It is now obvious that they didn’t.”

“The natural state of our economy is prosperity. Freedom guaranteesthat. The only force capable of undermining it isgovernment.”