Vernon Jordan Quotes

"What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you."
- Vernon Jordan
(Related: People, Care, Will, World)

"You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott."
- Vernon Jordan
(Related: Word)

"The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957."
- Vernon Jordan
(Related: Authority, Chicago, Job)

"Terrorism is not new to black people."
- Vernon Jordan
(Related: People, Terrorism)

"I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved."
- Vernon Jordan

"I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No."
- Vernon Jordan
(Related: Leadership, Sense)

"Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top."
- Vernon Jordan
(Related: Work, Goals, Company, Objectives, Pressure)

"But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place."
- Vernon Jordan
(Related: Time, Will)

"A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus."
- Vernon Jordan
(Related: Goals, Performance, Diversity, Sales)

"My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended."
- Vernon Jordan
(Related: Mother, President, School)