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Turn customers into friends

Stay the same person. Stay loyal. Stay hungry. Don't just have customers - make them your friends. Buy them an ice cream, buy them a hot dog. That's how you build something lasting.

Passion is what keeps you going

You've got to do something you love. It has to come from internal passion. You can't wake up at 4 a.m. every day for 30 straight years if you don't love what you do.

Build for Value, Not for Quick Money

Don't go for the quick money. Go for building a business that's worth something to many people

Scaling Slowly Beats Scaling Fast

Don't try to go from zero to 100, grow zero to 5%, then 10%, 15% - take your time. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

The best financial decision I made throughout my career was betting on myself.

The hardest part of business is managing people.

"No" does not mean never. It just means not yet.

Miracles come when you reach your limit

I think miracles happen when you're so hopeless and you've done everything you can, but you're still failing - and then suddenly, something you thought would never work becomes a breakthrough. I asked for that in prayer, and it makes you believe miracles exist - and ultimately that God exists.

A master architect behind everything

There has to be a master architect that designed all of this - the sun, the moon, everything, and us humans with two cameras in our face and a microphone...

Solving big problems is your legacy

If you're able to solve a big problem, that's what you want to do - that's what you want to leave behind. Ultimately, that becomes your legacy.

Build something that creates real value

Leave something valuable behind - a project, a product, something that changes people's lives positively whilst making money for you.

The 5-step recipe for success

The secret recipe to success is: try, fail, learn, fix, try again - five steps.

Failure is part of entrepreneurship

It's okay to fail. As an entrepreneur, you're going to fail every day. Even when you're successful, there's always something you're not going to get fully right.

Success Means Getting Back Up

Successful people fail, fall, get up, and continue like nothing happened.

Consistency beats intelligence

There are a lot of smart people who never make it, and a lot of less intelligent people who do. The difference is often consistency. I think consistency plays a huge role in success.

Consistency is the most important ingredient toward success.

I never play a one-year game. I only play a 10-year game.

Hire experts and let them do their thing

You want people in your business who are specialists, who know more than you do. Empower them, let them do their thing, and give them the freedom to take your product and your company to a whole other level.

I don't believe in micromanagement. I believe in passion management.

The best people need little direction

We have a saying in Arabic: once the chick is born, it knows how to walk; once the duckling is born, it knows how to swim. The same is true of great people. If someone is truly good at what they do, they shouldn't need you to tell them what to do - they should know, and they should be better than you at it.

The gap between an 8 and a 10 is enormous

Every organization has 6s, 7s, and 8s. But if you want to build something truly great, you have to focus on 9s and 10s - A players only. The difference between an 8 out of 10 and a 10 out of 10 is huge.

Great People Don't Need Directions

If I have to tell someone what to do or how to do their job, they're not in the right place.

Great Design Tells a Story

Good design is about building a story that people want to be part of.

In real estate, it's never a money problem, it's a creativity problem.