A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales numb…

- Vernon Jordan

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and ince…

- Vernon Jordan

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

- Vernon Jordan

You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand o…

- Vernon Jordan

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

- Vernon Jordan

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Pla…

- Vernon Jordan

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

- Vernon Jordan

You're in love, that's what your problem is.

- Vernon Jordan

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

- Vernon Jordan