Solomon Burke Quotes

I will begin a new program to get private enterprise into the ghetto and the ghetto into private enterprise. I call it “Black Capitalism.” More black ownership of business and land and homes can be the multiplier of pride that will end our racial strife.

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.

Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city.

I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.

I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy. I think we have something like 40,000 small businesses that are immigrant-run in New York.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.

I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.

There is one thing that I have learned about Economic Development—that it has to do with a lot more than economics.

I was doing economic development for minorities. I was getting black folks to use their dollars to help each other.

We can't just be the party of redistribution of wealth; we need to be the party of the creation of wealth in communities all over the country, not to just Silicon Valley, not just Wall Street, but all over.

We have a responsibility to do better as black people in this country. I don't care how white people look at you - I care that we have a one-trillion-dollar spending base, and if you want to see change, you have to start to focus on, economically, how can we change our communities.

I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race. ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!

Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in America, economically, civically, and otherwise, hide behind - hide their guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of being anti-Semitic, simply because he teaches our people to go into business for ourselves and take over the economic leadership in our own community.

I want to deal with the truth and a proper education that will not allow us to be educated and then come out and beg another man for a job when you should be creating a job for yourself.

Having practical proposals that improve people's economic lives is where it's all about in Ohio, and that's what we're focused on.

To any young person starting out on life and looking to make a quick fortune, I have this advice: forget banking, but go instead into security, scaffolding, or urban trench digging. Not in a hands-on way. I mean start a company.

We need one America - one that includes housing, education, jobs, access to capital, and economic inclusion for every American. This will create a stronger America.

We should redefine the metric for effective lending, viz., prioritise loans to enterprises, which will generate more employment.

My dad's entire business and enterprises have been about helping the African-American community.

We need to create jobs across Africa and provide its growing population with a route out of poverty where they are.

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.

To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.