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Russell Simmons Quotes

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

Russell Simmons

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: October 4, 1957

Topics

Yourself Surround Yourself People You

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.

Success Great Comedy Kind Horror TV

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

Robert Kiyosaki

Value You Know Dollar High Anything

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

Peace Mind Hand Property Secure

My parents always got a kick out of my art. I was always able to make them laugh. As I got older, I remember the thrill I got when I graduated from making my classmates laugh to making adults laugh. Kind of a watershed moment.

Art Moment Parents Laugh Remember

I tune it all out because if I let other people's stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.

Myself Stress People Me More Need

It always hurts a bit to pick the 'wrong one' in a race as big as the Champion Hurdle, and then, to make matters worse, you go and get beat by the horse you rejected.

Champion Horse You Wrong Go Race

As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories.

Best City Society Better America

As for my writing process, there is one truth I have discovered after writing some twenty-plus books: Not every book is the same, but the middle of every book is where I really begin to question my choice of vocations. The beginning and end is usually fairly clear to me, but that middle just sucks the life right out of me.

Life Truth Beginning Me Writing End

I was definitely the kid who was the chicken, who didn't want to say the cuss words.

Words Say Want Chicken Kid Who

My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.

Dominic Monaghan

Mom Loved Laugh Enjoy Kind Always

On any high-performing team I've been a part of, putting mission first, and team before self, was always key to collective success.

Success Team Key Self Mission First

The American professional schedule gives players a six-month off-season, so many of us have become pickup regulars while training without an organized team.

Training Team American Professional

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