30 Quotes by Berry Gordy

Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will.

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn’t know they had.

There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now.

I didn’t want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.

Money had never been the main thing for me. It’s the legacy that was important.

Today’s business climate is not for me.

It’s like losing a son because I loved Michael and Michael loved me. But you know, as when people grow up and they make their own decisions and they move forward, there’s a distance, and I think that Michael in some cases might have gone too far with some of the things he was doing.

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood – if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

I’ve discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common – a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.