Curtis Jackson Quotes

I need you. I need you to hate, so I can use you for your energy

People who actually have money don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else.

I never allowed my fear to limit me.

If you're not doin anything and you don't have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air.

I have less compassion than the average human.

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.

I've got to make it to heaven; for going through hell.

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.

Even the toughest guys are afraid to be anything outside of the toughest guys.

A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.

Death must be easy cuz life is hard

My grandma pregnant again trying to talk her out of keeping it

Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.

I have a romantic side. I do things.

He who fears fate lives like a coward

I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.

When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.

In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.

Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.

When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy?

Everyone else is just mad cause i came from the bottom with out them

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.

A Recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

You can be a victim, or you can lock and load.

Reality is my drug. The more I have of it, the more power I get and the higher I feel

I don't think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I'm from the bottom I think they look at me and go 'well, if he made it, I can make it'

I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN.

I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.

The public is never wrong. When people don’t respond to what you do, they’re telling you something loud and clear. You’re just not listening.

Just be confident. Confidence is the most attractive part of a person. Because if they're not confident enough to show you who they are, you don't even know who they are.

Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.

In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

Eating well was something I learned as I started to be successful and had to travel and perform concerts, which are an intense cardio workout.

In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.

Sleep is for those people who are broke.

I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.

Look into the windows of my soul. The eyes never lie, they bloodshot red.

When I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position – I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down.

I believe people have a little more interest in reading what I'm saying or hearing me speak because they know I ain't gonna sugarcoat it. Because I give them the truth.

I'm down to sell records but not my soul.