Curtis Jackson Quotes

While my six-song EP is unlikely to set any sales records, it's one of my biggest personal achievements - on par with starting my own company. On par with selling my own company.

I'm just an artist that makes good music and has a good idea to make money off of that.

Certain jobs [films] are for the business really, because they get an audience, they get a global audience. Certain jobs are as an artist. If I can keep moving forward and strike some form of balance between them two, then I'm going to feel content.

I've met a lot of people and happened to inspire a lot of people who I'm in conversation with about business. It's just how things are going for me and it's great, but music is always going to be number one for me.

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation of the finer things in life.

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.

In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. I felt a calling.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.'

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.

I still want an entrepreneurial culture to exist forever.

I'm a rapper to a lot of people. But I'm also someone who is very entrepreneurial.

Music has given me a fantastic lifestyle.

I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed.

Turning nothing into a business is cool.

Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.