Russell Simmons Quotes

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

Ideas, Recognized, Locked

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

Blessed, Help, Find

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
Russell Simmons

Yourself, Smarter, Surround

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.
Russell Simmons

Money, Successful, Help

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

Art, Struggle, Dream

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

Life, God, Hope

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

Music, Poetry, Words

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

Help, Question, Situation

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

Ignorance, Fight, Give

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

Help, Suffering, Community

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

Learn, Step, Process

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

My little girls are the most beautiful women in the world. I am a lucky, lucky man. I will spend every day making sure that they know this.
Russell Simmons

Women, Beautiful, Making

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

Art, Yourself, Bad

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

Great, Father, Job

Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
Russell Simmons

Wife, Last, Year

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
Russell Simmons

Business, Creative, Beginning

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
Russell Simmons

Knowledge, Poverty, Lack

Service is the key to everything in life.
Russell Simmons

Life, Everything, Service

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

Work, Today, Suffering

Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
Russell Simmons

Money, Around, Last

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.
Russell Simmons

Cool, America, Special

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: October 4, 1957

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