Russell Simmons Thoughts

One positive thought can change your whole day.

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.

You don't need a record deal. You'll have the industry begging for you, when you build your buzz.

The research shows that if you meditate, the mind becomes still, and they can see the functionality and gray matter in the brain increase, the nervous system calm, the immune system improve and a reduction in stress.

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you.

Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.

Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.