DAMON DASH

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

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.

I never had to ask Def Jam for anything.

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

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

A 'Roc-A-Fella purist' is me.

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

I fire lawyers frequently.

I'm not a complainer.

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.

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 become friendly with people I work with.

Freedom is priceless.

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

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

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

A diabetic always wants to help another diabetic.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

Number one, I am a true movie maker. And, you know, I am very much - I don't want to say infatuated, but I'm impressed with the art of making a movie and invoking emotion. You know, when I started making movies, I thought it was easy, and then when I got into it, I was like, 'This is not easy at all.'

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 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?

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

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.

'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.

A real man won't ask or answer questions about another man's money.