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Russell Simmons
American
Businessman
Born:
Oct 4
,
1957
Business
People
Think
Try
Who
You
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Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith.
Russell Simmons
Work
Faith
Hard Work
You
Respect
Goals
Will
Parents
Drive
Dedication
Imagination
Tell
True
Ideas
Stick
Itself
Get
Behind
Want
Anything
Your
Hard
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
Russell Simmons
Art
You
Yourself
Situation
Way
Bad
Bad Situation
Through
Escape
Express
Express Yourself
If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person.
Russell Simmons
You
Wake Up
Become
Give
More
Wake
Versus
Up
Person
Get
Going
Want
Deciding
Successful
Successful Person
I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
Russell Simmons
Try
Animals
Think
Environment
Planet
Helpful
Things
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.
Russell Simmons
Blame
People
Will
Society
Poets
True
Always
Artists
Ills
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
Service
Best
Business
Fight
Financial
Gift
Political
Greatest Gift
Run
Charities
Given
Absolute
Empower
Greatest
Causes
Done
Poor
Many
Company
Thing
I try to keep a positive intention and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
Russell Simmons
Positive
Try
Animals
Whatever
Think
Others
Benefit
Resources
Hurtful
Environment
Intention
Create
Planet
Use
Businesses
Helpful
Keep
Things
I go to yoga every day. I meditate every morning.
Russell Simmons
Day
Morning
Every Day
Every
Go
Yoga
Meditate
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
Alone
People
Compassion
Young
Give
Always
Left
Want
Young People
Fortunate
Less
Help
Help People
Who
To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.
Russell Simmons
God
You
Noise
Live
State
Seconds
Only
Most
Just
Us
Full
Fully
Awake
Present
Consciousness
Here
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
Happy
Yourself
Cause
Giving
Others
Everything
Critical
Give
Making
Get
Getting
Being
Being Happy
Cycle
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. Pick people who are interested in what you're interested in.
Russell Simmons
You
Yourself
People
Surround Yourself
Pick
Smarter
Surround
Than
Interested
Who
I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.
Russell Simmons
Ignorance
Fight
People
Opportunity
Poverty
Those
Locked
Out
Give
Want
Who
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
Russell Simmons
Democracy
People
Politicians
Our
Everything
Sight
Spoiled
Selling
American
Then
Including
Buying
I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.
Russell Simmons
Freedom
Me
Creative
People
Focus
Big
Has-Been
Part
Talented
Also
Because
Around
Am
Been
Very
Big Part
Going
Creative People
Lucky
Mediation
Things
Watch
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.
Russell Simmons
You
People
Late
Step
Learn
Pass
Process
Early
Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
Russell Simmons
You
People
Judgment
Situation
How
Question
Them
Help
Helpful
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
Russell Simmons
Wife
Year
Got
Last
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
Culture
World
Beginning
Way
Has-Been
See
Could
Hear
Been
Cultural
Very
Artists
Experiences
Them
Exposing
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
Russell Simmons
You
Rights
Money
Rights Movement
Wrap
Civil
Some
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Step
Know
Well
Around
Hands
Movement
Your
Right
Last
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
You
Words
Money
Wake Up
Become
Other
Else
Someone
Give
More
Make
Wake
Versus
Up
Person
Get
Going
Want
In Other Words
Deciding
Successful
Successful Person
Help
I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful.
Russell Simmons
Try
Think
Hurtful
Create
Businesses
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
People
Key
Diversity
Think
Society
Entrepreneurs
Part
American
Where
Want
Experiences
Much
Next
I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.
Russell Simmons
Politics
Money
Think
Out
Critical
Idea
Getting
I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.
Russell Simmons
Failure
Think
Others
Some
Than
Afraid
Less
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
Work
Saying
Failure
People
Fear
Think
Like
Most
Afraid
Hard
Keep
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