Magic Johnson

I’m a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

Magic Johnson

I’m building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

Magic Johnson

I’ve always been a leader my whole life. I’ve always led. I didn’t know how to do anything else.

Magic Johnson

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.

Magic Johnson

If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.

Magic Johnson

It’s a burden trying to keep a secret. It’s hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

Magic Johnson

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could’ve had.

Magic Johnson

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

Magic Johnson

My work ethic is from sports.

Magic Johnson

People see me high-fivin’ and smiling on the court, and they don’t think that’s me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.

Magic Johnson