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Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.

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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
Businessperson
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Sacrifice
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Great
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Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.
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I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New York.
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Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
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You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.
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Larry [ Laurenzano] said to me one day near the end of junior high, Jon, are you Jewish? I said, No. And he said, Well neither am I. I'm not sure of Caesar DiMauro, but he teaches at the JCC and I got you a scholarship there.
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You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a great man.
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Love is the answer for the team's success.
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Phil [Wood] was known for having a little bit of a gruff manner, but he was all heart.
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When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don’t look at your challenges look up and look out into the future. Don’t focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success.
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If I could have picked two guys on the planet, to have some exposure to at that age, those were the two right guys [Phil Woods and Charles McPherson].
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It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.
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When I was 13, 14, 15, I had played in a couple of jazz ensembles. I didn't know anything about harmony, about II-V-I, though I had learned my scales with Caesar [DiMauro].
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I just lucked into a lot of good people man. In my life and through friends, and in the music, that really embraced me and took care of me. I'm a lucky guy.
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I saw a nice interview with Dave Binney recently. He was saying, Man it was never easy. It's not like 'Oh wow, the good old days.' What, when certain people couldn't vote? There was more work for musicians in the '40s, '50s, '60s. But I don't think it was ever easy.
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A lot of musicians have said things to me like, Music saved my life. And I'm standing on the shoulders of dozens of people that you've never heard of that were like angels for me that came out of the woodwork. And that's really the case for me. I had so many people that did those kinds of things for me.
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I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
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You're not going to have any pension or health care from those $60 nights at you name the club. But I think you do this because you have to do it. You pursue any art form because you need it. Because you love it.
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No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.
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I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called for bad wedding gigs and I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months.
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Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.
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