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It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you.

Russell Simmons

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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
Business Person
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
Record Producer
Television Producer
Writer
Queens
New York
Russell Wendell Simmons
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Service is the key to everything in life.
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If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
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Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.
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The less you need, the more you attract.
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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.
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I ask everyone - white Hollywood and black Hollywood - to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That's where they're going to learn from each other, and that's where they're going to make better movies and make Hollywood a better place.
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I read The Yoga Sutras every day.And also the The Bhagavad Gita. Those two books sit by my bed.
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You just have to smile and breathe. You do the best you can with what you have and that's it.
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Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before they hit. Everyone around me thought I was crazy. You just have to stay at it.
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Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!
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I don't eat anything that runs away from me.
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The always-connected culture isn't as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn't need a new toy.
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I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen.
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My idea is to integrate black stars into mainstream stars. It hasn't been explored properly. That's what Im doing in Hollywood.
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If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.
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The seconds of presence are where most inspiration comes. There are sunsets that promote it.
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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.
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