Quotes by David Steward - Page 1

I didn't know much about hockey.
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Hockey
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You remember the dates that changed your life.
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Life Your Remember
Dates
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I love my employees and show them through my actions.
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Employees
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I have not seen a community more giving than St. Louis.
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Louis
St. Louis
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The stock market lives in the present. I live for the unseen.
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Unseen
Stock
Stock Market
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I'm cashing in on the excitement of making a difference in the world.
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Excitement
Making A Difference
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The spirit of St. Louis as I view it from my lens is a spirit of giving.
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Louis
Lens
St. Louis
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We used to go to the jazz fest in Kansas City. And my mother and father took me.
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Mother And Father
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United Way works to create a safe and healthy home for everyone in our community.
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Our Community
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We still live in the greatest country in the world, and God blesses persons of color too.
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God World Country
Greatest Country
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When I look at this company, I envision a billion-dollar business, and that's how it's run.
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Envision
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There's a biblical saying that I truly believe in: 'To whom much is given, much is required.'
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Required
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Investments in diversity are critical for the long-term viability and future competitiveness of WWT.
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Competitiveness
Long Term
Viability
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I literally lived on the other side of the railroad tracks, but I learned that division doesn't work.
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Division
Railroad
Tracks
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I went to St. James Methodist Church in Clinton, a segregated church on the other side of the tracks.
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Methodist
Segregated
Tracks
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As the only African American NASCAR driver in over 40 years, we have been honored to support Bubba Wallace.
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Honored
Nascar
Driver
Wallace
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I see my people having babies and moving into nice homes, not just at this company but at our suppliers and customers.
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Suppliers
People See Company
Babies
Homes
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My mother was the only musician. She played piano and she sang. She also played saxophone. And she played at home a lot.
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Saxophone
Sang
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We're probably one of the few Internet dot-com B2Bs business-to-business companies that have improved their bottom line.
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Bottom Line
Dot-Com
Improved
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When I engaged the team at Mitchell Wall, it was clear from the beginning that this was a very special architectural firm.
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Engaged
Firm
Architectural
Mitchell
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I used to mow grass and sell Christmas cards and shovel snow in order to raise the $25 to go to Boy Scout Camp in Osceola every year.
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Boy Scout
Cards
Grass
Snow
Camp
Mow
Scout
Shovel
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It was clear in my mind that my belief in God, coupled with the desire to work hard to serve others, meant I was destined to succeed.
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Destined
Coupled
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I vividly remember segregation - separate schools, sitting in the balcony at the movie theater, being barred from the public swimming pool.
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Movie Theater
Pool
Segregation
Swimming
Swimming Pool
Balcony
Barred
Vividly
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With the Victory Junction alliance, we will celebrate and enable kids with diverse challenges and perspectives to reach their fullest abilities.
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Celebrate
Diverse
Junction
Alliance
Enable
Fullest
Perspectives
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There have been some doors opened to us as a result of our being a minority-owned business. But that's not going to sustain us over the long term.
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Doors
Opened
Sustain
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Thelma and I are excited to work with UMSL around our shared passion for jazz and education and make this initial investment to establish the institute.
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Institute
Establish
Initial
Shared
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We were re-engineering the entire business and at the same time having accelerated growth. That's like changing the engine while the plane is in the air.
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Accelerate
Time Business Growth
Engine
Plane
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The generational cycle of people returning to prison has enormous, negative impacts on all Americans, especially the family members of incarcerated people.
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Family Members
All Americans
Cycle
Generational
Impacts
Returning
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Every day, at the end of the day, I ask myself, 'Am I living my life worthy of the sacrifice and commitment the people who went before me made on my behalf?'
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Behalf
Sacrifice
Worthy
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It has been a great honor to serve the four campuses of the University of Missouri System in the role of curator, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity.
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Curator
Missouri
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I realized we were going through one of the greatest revolutions that ever hit the history of the world - the information age - and I wanted to be a part of it.
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Information Age
Revolutions
History Age World
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Given our family's long history with Variety the Children's Charity, BJC Health System and St. Jude's, it was an easy decision to get involved with Victory Junction.
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Charity
Junction
Variety
Family History Health
Family Health History
Jude
Long History
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To be able to create a platform that's innovative and different that incorporates technology you couldn't incorporate before is an interesting and unique opportunity.
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Incorporate
Unique Opportunity
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For me, it's all about the youth and us stepping up as a community to embed a set of value systems to help these children make better decisions that are based on something.
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Value Systems
Stepping
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I was part of integrating the public swimming pool in the 1960s. A group of us decided one day we were going to go swimming. Nothing happened. No resistance. We just went and jumped in.
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Integrating
Pool
Resistance
Swimming
Swimming Pool
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It takes getting the right talent. It takes a lot of patience. It takes investment and passion and commitment and entrepreneurial spirit, and everyone in the organization must buy into that.
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Entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurial Spirit
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As our region and neighbors face unprecedented challenges and impacts amid the Covid-19 crisis and the call for racial equity, our support of United Way and its work is more critical than ever.
David Steward /
Equity
Unprecedented
Work Face Challenges
Impacts
Neighbors
Racial
Region
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The company has grown so by hiring the right people, and a key person responsible for finding the right people is Ann Marr. Ann is responsible on both ends - finding the people and retaining them.
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Hiring
Retaining
Right People
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By addressing generations of trauma in the Black community, Concordance helps people released from prison achieve significant change and lasting success for themselves, their families and the community.
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Black Community
Generations
Lasting
Prison
Trauma
Addressing
Released
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We have been blessed with substantial opportunities to continue to expand our business globally. This ultimately will create more jobs for the state of Missouri, and I am choosing to make that my primary focus.
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Missouri
Choosing
Expand
Substantial
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As an African-American, I think the way I treated others affected how people treated me. If people do attack you in certain ways, you can focus on it and be vengeful in your approach or take the high road - get over it.
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Affected
African American
Over It
Vengeful
Focus Me People
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Tom Wall has the unique ability to extract, cultivate and realize a vision that goes far beyond simple bricks and mortar. He has an amazing appreciation of art and beauty and his designs begin with listening to his clients.
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Appreciation
Bricks
Clients
Mortar
Cultivate
Extract
Tom
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One of the reasons we are profitable is the changes that we've made and the long-term relationships we've built with major corporations. We have gotten out there and put our nose to the grindstone and simply been competitive.
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Corporations
Long Term
Profitable
Nose
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We intend to pursue future gifts to exceed $8.1 million in conjunction with UMSL, Jazz St. Louis and the business community to ensure perpetual growth and a sustainable impact to the education of St. Louis children and beyond.
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Exceed
Perpetual
Pursue
Louis
Business Community
Conjunction
Sustainable
Gifts
Intend
St. Louis
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It's all about culture. If you can get the right people with the right mindset, the right core values and the ability to change on a dime, then you have the ability to invest and do what's best for the health and long-term value proposition of the business.
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Core Values
Long Term
Mindset
Invest
Dime
Proposition
Right People
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My biggest obligation is to serve the people of this organization, and to serve them well. I serve them with the best benefit packages, whether it's health care, dental or a 401(k) plan. I support them with the tools they need to be the very best they can possibly be.
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Dental
Obligation
Packages
Best Health People
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During the struggles, the one thing I remember was the continued support from my wife. I was running up phone bills and did all kinds of things to begin the process. When times were bad we bought food with credit cards. We had bill collectors calling. We maneuvered through this together.
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Bills
Cards
Collectors
Credit Cards
The One Thing
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I knew a gentleman who was 65 who had a consulting firm outside of Kansas City, Mo. I convinced him to sell me the business, which did auditing and reviewing of freight bill charges, for nothing down. It was a step out of working in this bureaucratic setting of corporate America and going out on my own in 1984.
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Consulting
Corporate
Corporate America
Firm
Setting
Business Me Step
Bureaucratic
Charges
Freight
Business City Me
Reviewing
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