I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.
MAGIC JOHNSONThe first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
More Magic Johnson Quotes
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
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Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
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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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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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Because if you’re going to lose, lose. I’m serious.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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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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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were – they still are – great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
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Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.
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If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you’re business is successful.
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Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
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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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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