My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
MAGIC JOHNSONI’ve always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I’d read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
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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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Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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I’m from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers… it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players.
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Most people who are healthy, and I’m healthy, can’t even live my life.
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Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
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If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.
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I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.
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On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
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It’s a burden trying to keep a secret. It’s hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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