Vanessa Williams Quotes

I actually have eyes that irritate easily, so I wear the glasses to keep stuff out of my eyes. If you see me in shades indoors, you might be like, 'RZA is wearing shades inside. What the hell is going on?' I'm protecting my eyes, and I'm looking cool.

My advice is don't scrub your makeup off your eyes; be gentle.

With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people.

As soon as I heard of Common Goal I knew this was a chance for football to improve our world and I wanted to be part of it.

Are businesses really benefitting if their communities are suffering? It doesn't seem like it.

I believe we must go further in redefining what United's corporate citizenship looks like in our society... and we intend to live up to those higher expectations in the way we embody social responsibility and civic leadership everywhere we operate.

Football generates a lot of money, but there has to be a social responsibility that goes with that. It can positively affect people's lives.

As an artist, we have a big influence, and we should always think if we are doing more harm than good to our viewers. We should serve as a model to them.

It's so hard to predict the political environment. I think that business can't sit on the sidelines and just watch. I think we need to be a force for the values that we believe in. We need to partner with government and regulators.

As soon as I got in the NBA, I was thinking about it - wanting to use my influence and resources to help different communities.

So many tech companies have embraced a mission that they say is larger than profits. Once you wrap yourself up in a moral flag, you have to carry it to the top of other hills.

Our credo says that, in the end, we want to drive positive change in the lives of our stakeholders and communities across the world, enabling them to rise.

It's not just about checking the box on corporate social responsibility. It's about hitting our bottom line.

The more socially conscious you are, the better the work you make.

I have great faith in lasers, but no one's putting one near my eye.

The marketing business has been just about promoting things, but we don't believe that anymore. There has to be a societal component, too.

You can be outraged by what the Koch brothers do with their money in politics and you can appreciate what they contribute to hospitals and medical research, and you can do that at the same time and still retain an ability to function.

Policy is the way you can change the world.

I believe that I exist for the people. I'm just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.

I started a software company with a couple other folks. It went public. We made plenty of money. And I thought it was this incredible mission, but in fact, we sold software to Haliburton; we sold software to Frito-Lay and Pepsi and all these companies that didn't necessarily do good things.

We have the enormous opportunity in our hands to make a positive difference for business, people, and the planet.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

Who is Tom? There is no Tom. If we sell a pair of shoes today, we give away a pair of shoes tomorrow. Originally we thought of "Tomorrow's Shoes," but I could only fit "TOMS" on the label. I had no idea everybody would want to meet him. There is no Tom; it's an idea for a better tomorrow.

We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.