Murda Beatz Quotes

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

I didn't go to college and I worked so I could play music. That was my goal.

I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.

When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

I've actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I'm 28 currently, but when I was about 16, I started building Websites, and that's how I put myself through school. I went to Duke with a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, and then to Princeton.

I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.

We built a business for ourselves just out of hard work, and I think people really want to hear from us about that.

My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'

My career may look bizarre to some, but I have very strong reasons for doing every single job I've done.

I never got along in school, really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.

'Entrepreneur' is a long, fancy French word, but it didn't seem like something you aspire to. It seemed normal, because whatever your parents do seems normal.

You'll be able to find many unemployed actors, you know? I've been gifted a wonderful career, and to now be able to find myself in a place where someone can look at the course I've charted and say, 'I can do that,' or 'I can do even better!' is a privileged position to be in.

At the end of the day, I'm the biggest boss. I'm self-made.

I'm really a self-made businesswoman.

I meet people on the street who literally chose their careers because they saw 'Back to the Future' and decided they wanted to be scientists or astronomers or engineers.

When you're by yourself and not with WWE, you are your own business. And I was very successful in that business because of all the lessons I learned.

Looking back, I believe that acting was the best that I could do. It just happened. I kept getting good offers, and the going has been good.