Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.

One night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends.

Sometimes I have to remind myself, that on my worst day I live like somebody on their greatest

They say money rule the world, you can’t pay God with it

No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you.

Big dreams turn into big things.

I leave my circle tight in keep my family close.

I don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right, every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out.

Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.

Just build your brand from day one, man. Your brand is your name, basically. A lot of people don't know that they need to build their brand, your brand is what keeps you moving.

If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.

If the past is no longer presentis it fiction?

Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

You will fail. At some point. More than once. Guaranteed. Proceed anyway.

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.