Famous Quotes

"The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred."

Henry Louis Gates on Business

More quotes about Business

• "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

  Mark Twain on Business

• "The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."

  Albert Einstein on Business

• "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

  Colin Powell on Business

• "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

  Dale Carnegie on Business

• "If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."

  Abraham Lincoln on Business

More quotes by Henry Louis Gates

• "I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti."

• "Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice."

• "It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art."

• "We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community."

• "Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that."