Quotes from Berry Gordy

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

Today's business climate is not for me.

If I settle a case out of court, it's because I love the person.

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.

There aren't enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

Your lovin' gives me a thrill But your lovin' don't pay my bills I need money — That's what I want.

I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.

All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.

There aren't enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now