Quote

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

Russell Simmons

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Ultimate
Compassion
Highest
Expression
Self

More quotes by Russell Simmons

Image
Service is the key to everything in life.
Russell Simmons
Image
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
Russell Simmons
Image
If you talk about the prison-industrial complex, I've fought against the prison-industrial complex when I called for a repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws. The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you're talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you're always coming up against lobbyists.
Russell Simmons
Image
I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.
Russell Simmons
Image
I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
Russell Simmons
Image
I don't fault business. If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That's why legislation and regulations are necessary.
Russell Simmons
Image
I have 2 million Twitter followers. Some of those people are also yogis and activists and people who really go out and make a difference. I do as much as I can with my voice. It's effortless in some cases. I try to remind everybody that they have that kind of voice.
Russell Simmons
Image
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.
Russell Simmons
Image
Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
Russell Simmons
Image
It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
Russell Simmons
Image
Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
Russell Simmons
Image
Stay in your lane. If you're good enough, people will move to you.
Russell Simmons
Image
I just try to, in my own way, contribute to making a better Hollywood, to move Hollywood to be a leader in social justice, as it always has been, and not to have any holes in their own backyard while they continue to push for equality and all the things that they always stand up for.
Russell Simmons
Image
You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
Russell Simmons
Image
I look for people who have insight in places where I don't.
Russell Simmons
Image
Don't worry what others are doing. Do you!
Russell Simmons
Image
Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
Russell Simmons
Image
My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that it's a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, Aaaahhh, and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.
Russell Simmons
Image
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
Russell Simmons
Image
You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.
Russell Simmons