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.

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

It's funny: when the press knows someone's gonna say something stupid, they're quick to pass them a mic and put a camera on them, and everybody talk about it.

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.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

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?

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

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

I know how cool I look when I look in the mirror.

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.

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

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

If you give a bipolar man a mic, I don't know what you expect.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

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

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

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

I'm not a mogul; I'm a tycoon.

I think Jay-Z is probably my best student, and I can say that he listens, and that's what always made him special.

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.

I have been diabetic since I was young.

The thing is, I have been diabetic, and I've been saying I'm diabetic; it's just, people don't write about it to showcase it or to bring awareness to it. So those are just the things that weren't spoken about. And, just like everything else, I had to do it myself to be heard.

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

No one's taken anything from me.

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

I fire lawyers frequently.

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

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

If you remember 'The Best of Both Worlds,' you don't see my name on that... I never wanted no part of that.

I was in 'Fiesta,' but only because Aaliyah said she wanted me to do it that way.

It's hard not to be confident when you put in business the biggest black male in comedy, Kevin Hart. I know I took him off a stage and put him in his first four movies. I know I did that.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Look at my life. I ain't got nothing to be mad about.

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

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

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'm a true businessman.

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.

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.

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.

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 really considered myself super hip-hop, ever in life. I don't think anything that I've done reflects that.

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

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