Quotes By Vernon Jordan
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
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
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
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
Vernon Jordan
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