Russell Simmons Quotes - Page 2

It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap.

If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.

You don't need a record deal. You'll have the industry begging for you, when you build your buzz.

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.

You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won't say. It's like Donald Trump.

I don't believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God's way of communicating with us.

Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success.

The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.

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.

Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith.

I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that's when you're able to think and learn.

One positive thought can change your whole day.

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

The research shows that if you meditate, the mind becomes still, and they can see the functionality and gray matter in the brain increase, the nervous system calm, the immune system improve and a reduction in stress.

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.

Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.

Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don't, they're going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.

Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.

I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.