top of page
Quote_1.png
Solomon Burke

"We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else."

Standard 
 Customized
"We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else."

More 

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"In the business always talk to decision makers only, it will save your time and will get you the deal."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Business is the salt of life."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"To me everything in business boils down to this: do you genuinely care about your customers - or just their cash?"

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"One of the biggest secrets of success is delegation. Exactly the method Sir Richard Branson uses! If it helped him become a billionaire businessman then it is worth utilizing in your own life/business, etc."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales. not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Solomon Burke
"I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me."

People

Quote_1.png
Solomon Burke
"I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records."

Company

Quote_1.png
Solomon Burke
"We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction that had no programming."

Direction

Quote_1.png
Solomon Burke
"My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation."

Management

Quote_1.png
Solomon Burke
"I want to be a soul singer."

Soul

Quote_1.png
Solomon Burke
"Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability."

Ability

Quote_1.png
Solomon Burke
"But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do."

Finance

Quote_1.png
Solomon Burke
"Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time."

Time

Quote_1.png
Solomon Burke
"The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists."

Time

Quote_1.png
Solomon Burke
"We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing."

Money

bottom of page