Hussle: "Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth."

Hussle: "I think everybody's trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do."

Hussle: "Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it's happening."

Hussle: "As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?"

Hussle: "Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward."

Hussle: "It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures."

Hussle: "I don't ever make moves under pressure."

Hussle: "We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps."

Hussle: "I pay attention to politics and technology."

Hussle: "Any time a country transitioned to a fiat currency, they collapsed. That's just world history; you don't have to know about cryptocurrency to know that."

Hussle: "I'm the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth."

Hussle: "Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create - in one generation - closing the gap. That's why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: 'cause it's life or death for real."

Hussle: "I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody."

Hussle: "I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce."

Hussle: "You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be."

Hussle: "My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick."

Hussle: "If you're going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don't love it, then we don't need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion."

Hussle: "I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy."

Hussle: "If you've got a plan, it's not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal."

Hussle: "I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal."

Hussle: "Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can't take steps toward whatever your goal is."

Hussle: "When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you're talking about addressing the foundation of what's going on with our people when we don't have any financial power. Our basic needs aren't being met in a lot of cases, so there's no way we're going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs."

Hussle: "I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of 'em and I could deliver with the best of 'em."

Hussle: "It's not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It's about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off."

Hussle: "Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God."

Hussle: "I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I'm doing, you know what I mean? And I think what's gon' separate whoever's gon go for something, that you ain't gon' quit."

Hussle: "I'm at peace with what I'm doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle."