Quotes from Damon Dash

My delivery can be intense, but it's intense because I need to be heard. I know that people don't usually listen, as it relates to constructive criticism, without getting offended. So, I speak my mind with an attitude that I don't care if you get offended; I just want you to get the message.

I believe in therapy, and I believe an objective opinion sometimes helps you be a better person.

There's certain lines you just don't cross. You know the one thing that will get a man out of pocket is when you mess with his children.

Everyone I put in business, I must've taught them something. They all have reaped the benefits of it. A lot of them haven't done right by me, but it's all gravy.

I work hard, so I surround myself with people that work just as hard. It's important if you want to create a successful brand.

When I had daughters, I realized that I wouldn't never do anything to a girl that I wouldn't want done to my own daughter.

My favorite record was the one I produced with Clark Kent.

I'm never gonna owe money because every time I get a dollar, I put it into another business, whether it's to buy goods or develop other companies. You don't have money; you have companies. That's one business model. That's mine. And I only associate with other people that are putting up their own money, 'cause they're the only ones that can relate.

I don't like to be considered a 'hip-hop mogul.' I don't know what that means.

I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that.

We not from Hollywood, so I'm not playing Hollywood's game.

I'm gonna direct, like, a real movie. At least an hour and some change.

The worst disrespect of all time is to disrespect someone's children.

I'm not one to be paying too much attention to what another dude's doing.

'Hustle & Flow' came out, and I was really rooting for 'Hustle & Flow' because, you know, it was a hip-hop movie, and it was a good movie. It was well acted.

Being independent is everything. That's all I know.

I got cribs all over the place and offices all over the place, and sometimes I lose track of my stuff.

I think that the better sign of an OG is when he's happy that the person that he raised got bigger than him and in a position where they could help.

I work to go on vacation. Hopefully, the more money I make, my vacations will get a little longer to the point where they last a year.

Everything that scared me is losing people I love, and everyone that I really love, as it relates to females, I've lost. So what it's made me be is the animal that I am because I don't want to sit down and think about the things that are hurting me, but, you know.

I never had to ask Def Jam for anything.

Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella were two equal entities under the Def Island umbrellas.

Those people are corny. You think I'm rolling to a club with Lyor Cohen or John Meneilly?

I don't wanna be yelling all my life. How loud did I have to yell to say that Jay-Z was the man and the best rapper of all time?