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I would like to employ more people but I don't want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I'm working on that.

Russell Simmons

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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
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Queens
New York
Russell Wendell Simmons
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I don't eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No fish or egg or dairy because I personally don't feel it's a good practice to eat anything that might run away from you.
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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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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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Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.
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It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
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It's always marketeers building their own careers.
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I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.
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Reacting to the world with a smile instead of a curse, a wave instead of the middle finger, will actually help you live longer.
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Running all my different companies has turned out to be a lot easier because I mediate twice a day and go to yoga every day.
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The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a hard job. That person will be eager to get started, no matter what kind of work is in front of her, because she understands that she's doing God's work. And when you're working for God, nothing is too hard.
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I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I'm a good giver without expectations.
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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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People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.
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A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in the urban communities, were about the American Dream, and the lack of opportunity in that structure. So they talked about everything - uplifting and getting what is perceived as success in America.
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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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No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.
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I don't miss a day of yoga. I don't miss my meditation... They're way more important.
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It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.
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The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.
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