![]() “Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do.You always look over your shoulder.” - Magic Johnson “If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you.If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.” - Wilma Rudolph “Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” - Booker T.“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” - Lena Horne.“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” - Frederick Douglass.The struggles within yourself-the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us-that’s where it’s at.” - Jesse Owens “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals.For me knowing and connecting with my employees is very important.” – Divine Ndhlukula They’re not going to find you on their own.” - Richard Parsons “It’s up to you to bring yourself to the attention of powerful people around you.“All business is personal… Make your friends before you need them.” - Robert L.It’s about accepting all of yourself.” - Tyra Banks “Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self.It’s this little engine that roars inside of me and I just want to keep going and going.” - Sheila Johnson I may not have known what I was going to do with that passion, but there was something - and I still feel it. “When I was younger there was something in me.Men might think they do things all by themselves but a woman is always there guiding them or helping them.” - Marjorie Joyner ![]() “The road back may not be as short as we wish,… But there are solid reasons to feel confident about the future.” - Richard Parsons.We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give.” - Vernon Jordan If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. “You are where you are today because you stand on somebody’s shoulders.This takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering, and often earns you new respect.” - Rosalind Brewer “You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them.In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.” - Aliko Dangote To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It took me 30 years to get to where I am today. “I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight.“I want to stop transforming and just start being.” - Ursula Burns.In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.” - Russell Simmons “If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you’re going to get, you become a more successful person.But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. “I had to make my own living and my own opportunity.A lot of times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.” - Spike Lee A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. And if you wish to donate to the cause, I suggest checking out the following resources: Let their words and advice instruct you, uplift you, and inspire you. In solidarity with their cause and admiration of their determination, I share 50 inspirational quotes by Black entrepreneurs and leaders throughout the years. I stand with them in their declaration that Black Lives Matter, and that any sort of suggestion that racism and oppression are over is blindly and dangerously out of touch. Odds that were stacked against them from the beginning. As we watch the world react to the murder of George Floyd and the systemic racism that has pervaded America since its founding, I can’t help but be in awe of the courage and resilience that the Black community has shown against impossible odds.
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