Curtis Jackson Quotations | Page 2

There had to be a better way - if I couldn't find it, I wanted to create it.

If I didn't smell so good would you still hug me?

I have a romantic side.

I love you like a fat kid love cake.

Ya'll know what you need to do? Get together, make a We Are The World record.

Show no love, cause love will get you killed.

For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I've got it, it just sits on my drive.

I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it.

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

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

Without music I wouldn't have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from music and the notoriety that comes with being successful as an artist. So I see myself as an artist first, but I'm absolutely conscious of business.

Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.

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.

What I do is take the jewelry back to the jeweler and they redo the jewelry with the same gold from the last thing.

What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that's just something that you're being conscious of, and you make the decision, "I want to say positive things."

Actions may make you appear to be someone else, when people actually find out what you're doing.

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.

I don't have a problem removing people from around me. They could be around for a long time, and I could get comfortable or used to them, and then I can just get rid of them.

When you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you're gonna bring the money. You're the cash cow.

"Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.

Move before you think you are ready. It is as if you are making it a little more difficult for yourself, deliberately creating obstacles in your path When you feel that you must work harder to get to your goal because you are not quite prepared, you are more alert and inventive. This venture has to succeed and so it will.

Death gotta be easy cause life is hard

I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me.

It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better.

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

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.

My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me. Because when he came into the picture, my priorities changed. I can risk possibly being incarcerated because the only person pays for it is me. I know that if I'm not physically available to take care of him, nobody else will. I want to have the relationship with him that me and my father never had.

When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

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

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

Money definitely changes your lifestyle. But the things you go through makes who you are. Your experiences, they travel with you.

When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.

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

Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change

Sleep is for those who are broke

He who fears fate lives like a coward

2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He even wrote music and material that he left behind after he died that made reference to him dying already. I think the significance in that ties back to us knowing that that's our fate.

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.

When I nearly died it made me think – this can happen again any second. I better hurry and do what I want. I started to live like I never lived before. When the fear of death is gone, then nothing can bother you and nobody can stop you.

Your opinion of yourself becomes your reality. If you have all these doubts, then no one will believe in you and everything will go wrong. If you think the opposite, the opposite will happen. It’s that simple.

I don't necessarily view death as something negative. Death gives meaning to life. Living in fear of death is living in denial. Actually, it's not really living at all, because there is no life without death. It's two sides of the one. You can't pick up one side and say, I'm just going to use the 'heads' side. No. It doesn't work like that. You have to pick up both sides because nothing is promised to anyone in this world besides death.

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

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'

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.

If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [...] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.

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

God's the seamtress that tailor-fitted my pain yo I got scriptures in my brain I can spit at yo dane straight the good book, look, niggas is shook 50 fear no man, warrior swing swords like conana

Everybody mad when their paper don't stack right

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves,

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'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.

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

Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don't sleep. I've got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.

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

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 feel like you can will yourself into a good space. Things that are meant to happen, will. If you believe in yourself enough, you can help yourself learn. You can inspire yourself in ways to discipline yourself to a point where you CAN become good enough.

My confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me.

When you walk in your home you don't have to maintain the same attitude that you had out in the street. You can be different with your people and your family than you are with a person that you run into in the hood. Even them they have to know to respond to you differently in the hood cuz if people see something out of the character that they portray you. They'll try you.

Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.

Power is confidence. The confidence to deliver your answer when you're in a board meeting is what will allow you to move up faster. The confidence to be yourself in front of people creates a separation.

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

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

Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come.

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

My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.

Death must be easy cuz life is hard

You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go.

I love funny women, and just being around them talking is fine with me. I love an interesting mind.

You either pray or worry. Don't do both.

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.

Get rich or die tryin'.

If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you're going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.

True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

I'm a track star running through life, chasing my dream.

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

If I'm focused while I'm strokin I could change how you walk

I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win. I need to know where I'm heading, because I know where I've been.

Being broke is against my religion.

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I'll break yo face.

Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.

I think everyone should be happy. I think a fool is going to go against same sex marriage at this point. Look how long it took him [Obama] to say he was for same sex marriages. You understand? I'm up for it. If everyone else is for it, then hey, to each his own. I don't have personal feelings towards it because I'm not involved in that lifestyle. I want people to be happy. It makes for everything to be better

Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.

I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It's hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do.

If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back?

The less you fear, the more power you will have.

I have less compassion than the average human.

If you a man and your over 25 and you don't eat pu**y just kill your self damn it. The world will be a better place. Lol,

I was born alone and I will die alone. I've got to do what's right for me and not live my life the way anybody else wants it.

I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.

Anybody who says that money don't change you - they only say that because they don't make enough.

I'll break your face, have your ass mumbling to the jay, you going against me dawg you makin a mistake. I'll split your wig and leave you open like a mickeal jackson jacket with all them zippers.

Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.

Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain. Joy wouldn't feel so good, if it wasn't for pain. Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard; It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred.

If you start hustling then don't pay a person what they deserve, pay them what they accept. That's good business. Even if you're not hustlin' pay them what they accept because you can capitalize off of people.

Show No Love , Cus Love Can Get U killed

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.