Vernon Jordan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Terrorism is not new to black people.
-- Vernon Jordan

#People #Black #Black People
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
-- Vernon Jordan

#Jobs #Lasts #Chicago
My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
-- Vernon Jordan

#Mother #School #President
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

#Leadership #Sitting
September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
-- Vernon Jordan

#September 11 #Tragedy #September
You're in love, that's what your problem is.
-- Vernon Jordan

#Problem
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

#Goal #Incentives #Pressure
But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
-- Vernon Jordan

#Giving #Giving Back #Individual
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

#Numbers #Diversity #Goal
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 they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
-- Vernon Jordan

#White #People #World
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 stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It's the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give
-- Vernon Jordan

#Responsibility #Giving #Forever
You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.
-- Vernon Jordan

#Be Careful #Careful #Boycott

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