“I ain’t no gangster. I’m a grown man trying to run a business.”

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don’t want the truth.

I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

There’s no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

I don’t care about how many times somebody recognizes my face.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin to assassinate my character, thats impossible. You talkin about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

I ain’t never preyed on the weak. I ain’t never gone and picked on a guy that I knew I could beat up, even as a kid. People wanna make me seem like I’m [that] type of guy.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it’s always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don’t act like it wasn’t you.

I think the biggest misconception about me probably is … I don’t prey on the weak. I ain’t a bully, but I ain’t no saint, either.

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

I’m gonna make sure everybody get their justice. This the year for business, this the year for my book, this the year for the movie and this the year for getting even. I’m on my way.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

You don’t build a business, you build people and then people build the business.

Have faith to believe for the impossible.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

The greatest thing you can do for your competition – hire poorly.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.