Russell Simmons Quotes

• I’ve been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

  Russell Simmons

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  Tags in Blessed, Help

• Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

  Russell Simmons

  Topics in Art, Dream

• 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

  Topics in God

  Tags in Hope

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

  Russell Simmons

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  Tags in Ignorance, Fight

• I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

  Russell Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Doing

• My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

  Russell Simmons

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Creative

• Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.

  Russell Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Help, Situation

• 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.

  Russell Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Help, Suffering, Community

• Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

  Russell Simmons

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Must, Poverty

• Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

  Russell Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Bad

• Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.

  Russell Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wife, Year

• If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.

  Russell Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learn, Process

• Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people.

  Russell Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Look, Unhappy

• 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.

  Russell Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ideas, Recognized

Russell Simmons (114)

Birth:	4th October, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Founder

About

Russell Wendell Simmons is an American business magnate. He and Rick Rubin founded the pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam. He also created the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and American Classics. Russell Simmons is the third richest figure in hip hop, having a net-worth estimate of $340 million as of April 2011.

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