Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Damon Dash - Page 2

I always approach logic without emotion. The math always equals the math. Regardless of whether I discovered the math before anyone else, or I just decided to accept it, I know what logically makes sense, and I'm going to speak on it every time.

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

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

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

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

There's things that I see that I did on videos when I was younger that I be like, 'Damn, I was bugging.' Champagne Dame, that dude, he was bugging. I don't even know that guy.

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

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

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

I never had to ask Def Jam for anything.

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

I become friendly with people I work with.

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

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

The reason why Roc-A-Fella crossed and became so essential to pop culture is that we were probably the most authentic people that were also so sophisticated.

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.

When I was young, I read the Bible, and I already knew what it meant to be the good guy - and look what happened to Jesus. So, I already understood that you get ridiculed for telling the truth, and I've always been aware of that. But, I'm a guy with confidence, and I'm not afraid.

I'm not a complainer.

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.

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

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 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?

It's very rare that a person, especially in his twenties and thirties, can do more than one business and do it well.

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.

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

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

Every little thing I've done as an adult and as a young adult, I've done diabetic.

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.

God does things and put certain things in front of you to see how strong you are.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Jobs are for lazy people who don’t want to invest in themselves.

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. Also, the concept of being "tired" doesn't really apply to me. In fact, I don't even consider "tired" tired. If you want to succeed and be successful, you can't let it bother you.

There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.

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

Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur.

When your dealing with a lot of men talking about selling drugs, you have to be the toughest one there, you have to be the one putting in all the work that you are expecting them to do. I was tired of leading from the front and living that life. That was not the aggressive lifestyle that I wanted to live. I wanted to progress as a man.

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 put myself in a position of authority where if I get judged, I get scrutinized. So if I get caught slipping, than I have to reap the repercussions of it. That is the game I’m in and people will judge you, you just have to get over it.