Chris Gardner Quotes


Passion is the thing that won't let you sleep at night because you want to get up in the morning and go do your thing.


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.