Jay-Z Quotes - Page 2

Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

I'd rather die enormous than live dormant.

Life is a gift, love opens it up.

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.

Men lie, women lie, numbers dont

Remind your self. Nobody constructed like you, you style your self.

I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.

You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.

No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.

Don't make decisions based on the fear.

Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.

There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive

When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down.

I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.

Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.

I believe you can speak things into existence.

I never ask for nothin' I don't demand of myself. Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth

In trouble waters I had to learn how to float

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.