Berry Gordy Quotes

1. At the plant, cars started out as just a frame, pulled along on conveyor belts until they emerged at the end of the line - brand-spanking-new cars rolling off the line. I wanted the same concept for my company, only with artists and songs and records.


2. 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.

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





4. I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.

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

6. If I settle a case out of court, it's because I love the person.


7. Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

8. Today's business climate is not for me.

9. Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.

10. 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.



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