Stedman Graham
Stedman Graham
Stedman Graham, Jr.is an American educator, author, businessman and speaker, primarily known as the partner of media mogul Oprah Winfrey. Graham and Winfrey were engaged to be married in November 1992, but later decided they would rather have a "spiritual union."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth6 March 1951
CityWhitesboro, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Stedman Graham quotes about
long important information
When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.
jobs people different
You know, and younger people today, you know, they may not have Social Security. They may not have a pension. They may have 17 different jobs. And so they have to be - they have to, you know, establish somewhat of an ownership, you know, mentality.
race color skills
Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.
thinking people understanding
Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.
heart men negativity
You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.
years prison folks
I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.
guy lucky lucky-guy
I'm a lucky guy. No question.
hours equal
Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.
values
How can I go out there and create value?
moving goal mind
A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.
fear vision vision-of-life
Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.
heart accomplishment goal
We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.
sports athlete want
So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.
dream children thinking
The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.