Quotes by Lebanese Authors - Page 3

Derivatives - The risk never leaves the system - It finds taker who believes the risk is acceptable....until they lose everything.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
We see the world as less random than it actually is.
Nassim Taleb
I believe the more personally removed people are from a major financial event, the less it is to affect their appetite for risk.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Root cause of inequality is the mass scale digital disruption advantage as means of wealth creation is concentrated.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
When you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?
Kahlil Gibran
Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
Kahlil Gibran
The twentieth century will have taught us that no doctrine in itself is necessarily a liberating force: all of them may be perverted or take a wrong turning; all have blood on their hands - communism, liberalism, nationalism, each of the great religions, and even secularism. Nobody has a monopoly on humane values.
Amin Maalouf
The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.... Always remember that.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The only color I judge people by is the color of their teeth.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran
When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Myth: Feeding the banking sector gobs of welfare cash will bring about a recovery. Fact: Our leaders are only dedicated to preserving power
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.
Kahlil Gibran
You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.”The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
Kahlil Gibran
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.
Kahlil Gibran
Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.
Kahlil Gibran
You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture.Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you.And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver , and an instrument of giving.For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you , who deem yourself a giver , is but a witness.
Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.
Kahlil Gibran
Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.
Kahlil Gibran
I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.
Rabih Alameddine
For the to see you shine, you must stay far way, for you are like the sun; when you’re too close, your light make them blind. And when you’re too far, they seek you. So let them seek you. They’re getting your light regardless, but appreciating your presence is different from recognizing your existence. If they don’t appreciate your presence, they may never recognize your absence.
Najwa Zebian
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people will come to you and stay.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Sometimes people try to expose what's wrong with you, because they can't handle what's right about you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
No one is fearless. The difference between achievers and everyone else is that they take action despite their fears.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Your strategy for success must constantly move, change, and evolve.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Strategy is born when a calculated risk meets an educated guess
Samer Chidiac
Never make fun of people who are different...unless they have more money, power and influence. Then you must.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in hand regardless of their weight and orientation.
Rawi Hage
Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
We need to empower every single child no matter who you are, no matter where you come from to have the best education and the best future.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Swag is not about what you want people to think about you, its already knowing what they think about you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The next time you think you're perfect, try walking on water.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.
Kahlil Gibran
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The country has turned its loyal inhabitants into wanderers similar to the survivors of an apocalypse.
Rami Ollaik
There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
If what you do doesn’t make others better at what they do then you are not living up to your potential.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
If you can’t fire your best friend or your brother, don’t hire them.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Either find a way, or make one....You can bend but you can never break if you want to achieve excellence.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Drugs have destroyed many people. But wrong government policies have destroyed many more.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes
Rawi Hage
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. You get in return what you give.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.
Kahlil Gibran
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
Rabih Alameddine
In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders cling on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
Hassan Nasrallah
The ones who say "you can't" and "you won't" are probably the ones that are scared that you will.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Always remember: Power in the wrong hands can destroy the owner. The same power that gave victory to Samson is what destroyed him.
Ziad K. Abdelnour