Quotes from Damon Dash

How can another man call another man boss? That's like calling another man 'Daddy.'

No one's taken anything from me.

It's incomprehensible for me to hear another dude talk about another's dude's pockets and have that matter and argue about that.

If you're not talking about the truth, I don't even want you around me.

When you're a business man, you have a lot of businesses, a lot of times they think you're laundering money or you're pretending you're writing things off that you don't.

A diabetic always wants to help another diabetic.

I have been diabetic since I was young.

If I have an accountant that just reports I just invested $10 million in my business, and he doesn't exactly itemize where every cost goes, it gives a flag to the government. They want to make sure that the reason I'm not paying taxes is because I'm reinvesting in these businesses and not trying to hide stuff.

Freedom is priceless.

I'm a businessman who puts up his own money, so I don't have time to hear about emotion. I gotta get right to the point. I'm going to tell you the truth, I'm going to address the elephant in the room, and we'll all move forward.

I'm always feeling death, and that is a part of life. When you know a lot of people, you will always experience death.

My thing is to have a good, profitable company, for it to be 100% owned independently.

I'm proud of Jay Z's success and Kanye's success. Inside, I feel like I had something to do with their success... I don't have anything but positive things to say.

I'm knee-deep into fashion; I'm knee-deep into movies.

First of all, how could I be broke, and I got all these companies?

You're only the boss if you put up your own money.

I become friendly with people I work with.

If I can't do things to the fullest, I don't want to do it.

I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?

I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.

What I've been noticing with the milennials is that they'll pay for quality.

If somebody asks you the same questions 25 times, maybe 2,500 times, do you still want to talk about the same thing?

I had to architect my life where I could raise my children.

You speak things into existence, but there's a gift and a curse with that. You got to be careful what you say.