Vernon Jordan Quotes

• Terrorism is not new to black people.

  Vernon Jordan

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Terrorism

• I’m here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that’s true of every black person I know who has achieved.

  Vernon Jordan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Achieved, Shoulders, Person

• 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 on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

  Vernon Jordan

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Surprised, Meant, Floor, Sense

• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

  Vernon Jordan

  Topics in Business, Politics

  Tags in Stands, September, Tragedy

• 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 certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

  Vernon Jordan

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Diversity, Bonus

• But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

  Vernon Jordan

  Tags in Recognize

• 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 pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

  Vernon Jordan

  Tags in Boardroom, Objectives, Incentive

• My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

  Vernon Jordan

  Topics in Business, Mother

  Tags in Attended, Pta

• The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

  Vernon Jordan

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Authority, Bus, Applied, Transit

• What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

  Vernon Jordan

  Tags in I Have Learned

• You have to be careful how you’re using the word boycott.

  Vernon Jordan

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Boycott

Vernon Jordan (11)

Birth:	15th August, 1935
Nationality:	African, American
Profession:	Activist, Lawyer

About

Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr. is an African-American lawyer, business executive and civil rights activist in the United States. A leading figure in the civil rights movement, he was chosen by President Bill Clinton as a close adviser. Jordan has become known as an influential figure in American politics.

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