Chris Gardner Quotes


As long as you have a plan for how you'll live, don't let jealous people turn their insecurities into yours.


Citations

Gardner, Chris. Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. Amistad, 2009.

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Chris Gardner
Chris Gardner
  • Born: February 9, 1954
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Businessman, Motivational Speaker

Christopher Paul Gardner is an American businessman and motivational speaker. During the early 1980s, Gardner struggled with homelessness while raising a toddler son. He became a stock broker and eventually founded his own brokerage firm Gardner Rich & Co in 1987. In 2006, Gardner sold his minority stake in the firm and published a memoir. That book was made into the motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness starring Will Smith.