Quotes from Damon Dash

Big shout out to Nas: if you want to scream my name out again and put my name in your rhyme, I think it's funny. Let's make some money from it. Just don't take it so serious, man.

Work harder than everyone, be patient, and just know that if you're going to do something on your own, you're gonna have to feel some pain.

You do something when you're 20, and you're still paying for it when you're 40.

I monetized my life so I never do anything that I don't like or that I'm not participating in 100 percent.

When my children look and ask about what I do, they know I'm the boss.

I don't believe in bullying in any form, but especially not on my children.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

I'm a true businessman.

I don't think my success or me having the opportunity to have success is from our generation. I think it's from the generations before us. I think it's the fact that people like Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers and people like that fought for us to have the freedom to do and say what we want and have the opportunity to make money.

I don't see the reason for sugar coating anything.

I never really considered myself super hip-hop, ever in life. I don't think anything that I've done reflects that.

I grew up in a lot of different places. I always saw the bigger picture. I was around rich kids with country houses and private jets. No disrespect to those people, but I never thought they were super geniuses. I couldn't see how I wasn't going to have those things, too.

Just cause you don't agree with a man, 'cause you're black, don't mean you gotta fight, argue. You just have a different perspective.

Lee Daniels, even though he owes me $2 million, I picked that. I put him in business.

I'm sick of talking about it. I wanna talk about something else. No more Jay Z questions. I answered them.

I love music, but the people in the music don't wanna work.

If I feel that somebody is hurting other people, then I'm going to make sure other people know - other people know about them.

If everyone is getting money, no one is getting disrespected, and no one is getting hurt, no one should be arguing.

Don't expect anyone to give you anything. If you really believe in something, then fight for it.

I lost my girl a couple years back, Aaliyah, in a plane crash. I wasn't expecting that, and also, my mother died, and at the time, my father wasn't in my life; the only person that took care of me was my mom.

Part of keeping work and life in balance is surrounding yourself with people that have similar aspirations.

Fashion week is always going to be necessary, but it's not going to be for everybody.

I try to get to the gym at least three to four times a week.

People have to listen to somebody speak, that the person that you're listening to is saying the right stuff, and that's all that really counts.