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Jesse Jackson Quotes

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 8, 1941

Topics

Small You Create More Out

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

Music Listening Hip-Hop Started Been

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

Robert Schumann

Music Myself Creative I Am Me

We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.

Good Profit Top Over Years Up

If you get to think of sharing wealth with people who need it and the purposes that need it, it gives a very different sense of satisfaction. I think I can build an institution which is very unlike the Gates' foundation. Gates' foundation is totally project-driven, that will serve a specific purpose and then self-destruct.

Purpose People Foundation Think You

Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.

Music People Guitar Long Early Play

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.

Martin Van Buren

King People Never Monarchy System

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

Funny Myself Fun Think Okay Things

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

Where Hit Stride Disappeared

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.

Chance Guilty Never Criminal Ever

Fiscally I'm very conservative... others say that I'm socially moderate.

Say Others Conservative Moderate

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Money Yourself Writing Think Enough

Whether it is an ad or a business, it must be something I believe in. I cannot do something simply for the money. It must connect with me because I want to be a catalyst to make people's lives happier.

Business Money People Me Believe

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