Vernon Jordan Quotes

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• Terrorism is not new to black people.
• You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you…
• What I know about this world is white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where…
• A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a…
• But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
• Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the…
• You're in love, that's what your problem is.
• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
• I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here…
• My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
• The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
• You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.
• I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

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