Russell Simmons Zitate auf Englisch

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Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

Russell Simmons

Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.

Russell Simmons

Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people.

Russell Simmons

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

Russell Simmons

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

Russell Simmons

My financial service business is the absolute best thing I have done to empower the poor. I run many charities and fight many political causes, but my financial service company is the greatest gift I've given.

Russell Simmons

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.

Russell Simmons

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

Russell Simmons

If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.

Russell Simmons

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

Russell Simmons

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

Russell Simmons

I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful.

Russell Simmons

I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver.

Russell Simmons

You can't jump to vegan if you're not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual.

Russell Simmons

I want to get involved in things that makes a difference in peoples lives and lifts them up. I don't want to be a part of anything that's not inspiring or helpful to the community that I'm serving.

Russell Simmons

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Russell Simmons

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

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Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.

Russell Simmons

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

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I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.

Russell Simmons

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. Pick people who are interested in what you're interested in.

Russell Simmons

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Russell Simmons

I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.

Russell Simmons

Service is the key to everything in life.

Russell Simmons

It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.

Russell Simmons

The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.

Russell Simmons

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

Russell Simmons

If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That's why legislation and regulations are necessary.

Russell Simmons

I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.

Russell Simmons

The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.

Russell Simmons

If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.

Russell Simmons

I don't spend any time thinking about my place in history, ever. If people say I changed things, it's nice, and I take it - but if I could give it to a charity it would be useful. I really believe now that my only job in life is to achieve a state of comfort and happiness.

Russell Simmons

The reason that I have Global Grind is to communicate ideas to people who might otherwise not be listening.

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As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it's the cycle of giving and getting.

Russell Simmons

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

Russell Simmons

I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.

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