Quotes from Russell Simmons

Most people believe that results matter. The idea that results matter is one that you have to keep letting go of. And most of the time, I believe it.

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person.

I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.

The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.

Happy can make you money, but money can't make you happy.

Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.

Money doesn't make u happy .. But happy makes you money.

The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money unless you expect something in return?

I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money.

The book 'Do You!' is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you - then the freedom comes. And we're only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn't make happy.

I want to do and I'm giving all the profits to charity, is to teach people to meditate. All it takes is a little bit of patience.

And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.

Stay in your lane. If you're good enough, people will move to you.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.

At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Needing nothing attracts everything.

What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.

You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.

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