by John Hope Bryant | Nov 30, 2007 | Bryant Traveling Man, Global Dignity
Think your life is nuts? This week I am on an absolutely crazy schedule, traveling from HOPE World Headquarters in Los Angeles to New York, where we have a Harlem HOPE Center, to Geneva, Switzerland, where I spoke before the Global Fellows at the World Economic Forum,...
by John Hope Bryant | Nov 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
A survey in Israel last year found two-thirds of Israeli Jews would refuse to live in the same building as an Arab. Given the choice, most Arabs would mirror such a preference. A sad commentary on the state of our world. Time Magazine
by John Hope Bryant | Nov 30, 2007 | Bryant Traveling Man, Global Dignity
You know, I saw this coming, but somehow, my brilliant French friends did not. Brilliant because they do and have done so many other things "right," but on this one, well they just got it all wrong. You see, in 1998, I gave a speech before the United Nations...
by John Hope Bryant | Nov 28, 2007 | Bryant Quotes & Bryantisms
"Respectfully, I have little use for so-called ‘experts,’ because it was all the ‘experts’ who told me that Operation HOPE would never work, back in 1992; that it would never be ‘viable.’ $400 million plus raised over 15 years,...
by John Hope Bryant | Nov 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
A special thank you to Tim Chrisman, chairman of Chrisman and Co, as well as being chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and vice chairman of the board for Operation HOPE, and my friend Don McGrath, chairman and CEO of Bank of the West, for...