Cent: "I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned."

Cent: "Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes."

Cent: "I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself."

Cent: "Power is confidence. The confidence to deliver your answer when you're in a board meeting is what will allow you to move up faster. The confidence to be yourself in front of people creates a separation."

Cent: "In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent."

Cent: "I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off."

Cent: "Even the toughest guys are afraid to be anything outside of the toughest guys."

Cent: "I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one."

Cent: "Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality."

Cent: "My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do."

Cent: "Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come."

Cent: "My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me. Because when he came into the picture, my priorities changed. I can risk possibly being incarcerated because the only person pays for it is me. I know that if I'm not physically available to take care of him, nobody else will. I want to have the relationship with him that me and my father never had."

Cent: "When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip."

Cent: "I don't necessarily view death as something negative. Death gives meaning to life. Living in fear of death is living in denial. Actually, it's not really living at all, because there is no life without death. It's two sides of the one. You can't pick up one side and say, I'm just going to use the 'heads' side. No. It doesn't work like that. You have to pick up both sides because nothing is promised to anyone in this world besides death."

Cent: "The more my fans know about my past, the more they'll be able to predict and understand some of the moves I make in the future."

Cent: "I'd like to connect with music like I did in the beginning. To have that intensity again, to have a song that comes on at 1 o'clock in the morning and it's the premiere song at that point. It's almost magic because, when you condition for it, it doesn't take long for you to write the content that everyone in the world can agree on at one time."

Cent: "Money definitely changes your lifestyle. But the things you go through makes who you are. Your experiences, they travel with you."

Cent: "I've always had to be two people. I've had to be my grandmother's baby in the house and be more like what people perceive 50 Cent as outside. I'm not even allowed to curse around her."

Cent: "I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them."

Cent: "When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself."

Cent: "True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid."

Cent: "I never understand how artists get [rich] and then not ... count [their] money. ... I'll sit there and count the money. I never have issues with that part. That's security."

Cent: "I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally."

Cent: "Anybody who says that money don't change you - they only say that because they don't make enough."