When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
MAGIC JOHNSONA lot of black guys always ask me, ‘Did Larry Bird really play that good?’ I said, ‘Larry Bird is so good it’s frightening.’
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.
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I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I’ve learned through every partnership and opportunity.
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I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too.
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With businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That’s how people want to be treated, with respect. That’s what I tell my employees – customer service is very important.
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WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place
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If people around you aren’t going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they’re dragging you down, get rid of them.
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So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He’s not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.
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I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds … It’s still the greatest move I’ve ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.
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You don’t have to be Magic to be special. You’re already special, you’re you.
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It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
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I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
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If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have.
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