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

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

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

Freedom is priceless.

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.

I think I'm extraordinarily motivated.

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.

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

I'm an authentic person: I can talk about diabetes and how it affects you because I'm actually diabetic, and I know how much help a person needs, whether it's support physically or just understanding and being conscious of what diabetes really is.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.